Gresham College Lectures
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear
Mar 21, 2012
Gresham College
Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes of technological development and mankind's increasing understanding of physical optics, but it is as much about charting different historical attitudes to the face and one's appearance before others. Only if we attempt to...
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