An essay on visual glasses, [electronic resource] : (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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eyeglasses--Early works to 1800.

Eyeglasses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27,[1]p.,plate )

Other Title:

Essay on visual glasses,

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author, and sold at his house, two doors below Crane-Court, Fleet-Street, 1756.

Notes:

Price on title page: (Price Six-pence.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T10173.

OCLC:

508444174