Spectacles and the Victorians. Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity, Hardback/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. -- . Publisher: Manchester University Press Author(s): Gemma Almond-Brown Illustration(s): 12 black & white illustrations Number of pages: 296 Collection: Social Histories of Medicine Publication date: 2023 Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 24 Cover type: Hardback