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Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity - Social Histories of Medicine Gemma Almond-Brown
Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity - Social Histories of Medicine
Gemma Almond-Brown
This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. -- .
288 pages, 12 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 5, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781526161352 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 147 × 24 mm · 500 g |
| Language | English |
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