An essay on visual glasses : (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn From the Principles of Optics, and the Nature of the Eye, that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, to the nature of things, &c. and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed. The Whole illustrated by a large copper-plate-print. By B. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eyeglasses--Early works to 1800.

Eyeglasses.

Physical Description:

32 pages,plate ; 8⁰

Edition:

The third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold at his house, two Doors below Crane-Court, Fleet-Street, [1758]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

"A catalogue of philosophical, optical, and mathematical instruments, made and sold by Benjamin Martin": pp.[28]-32.

Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N544.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.