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Spectacles and the Victorians : Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: [S.l.] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2023Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000Copyright date: 2023Description: 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526161376
  • 1526161370
  • 9781526161369
  • 1526161362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 617.752 23/eng/20230908
LOC classification:
  • GT2370
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Victorian spectacle wear -- Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-1850 -- The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904 -- Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design and access, 1851-1904 -- The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904 -- Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Victorian spectacle wear -- Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-1850 -- The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904 -- Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design and access, 1851-1904 -- The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904 -- Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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.

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