The Story of Glasses, or the Armed Look
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It is proven that we get most of our information about the world around us through our eyes.... And if the priceless gift of nature - eyesight - is disturbed, devices are used to correct it. Glasses - a thing so familiar to us today that it is hard to imagine that there was a time when they did not exist ...
Our book will tell you how optical devices evolved from the first spectacles found in Tutankhamun's tomb to modern 3D glasses and high-powered telescopes. You will read about contact lenses, corrective, bifocal, sports, sunglasses, computer glasses... You will learn what is refraction, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, adaptation, accommodation... Lorgnettes, monocles, pince-nez, microscopes, binoculars, telescopes, magnifiers - all these optical devices also found a place in this informative book, which will be interesting for both adults and children.
Our book will tell you how optical devices evolved from the first spectacles found in Tutankhamun's tomb to modern 3D glasses and high-powered telescopes. You will read about contact lenses, corrective, bifocal, sports, sunglasses, computer glasses... You will learn what is refraction, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, adaptation, accommodation... Lorgnettes, monocles, pince-nez, microscopes, binoculars, telescopes, magnifiers - all these optical devices also found a place in this informative book, which will be interesting for both adults and children.
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