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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.

Title: 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.
Author: Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.
Publication: London : printed for the author, and sold at his house, two Doors below Crane-Court, Fleet-Street, [1758]

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Description

32p.,plate; 8⁰.

Subject

Eyeglasses > Early works to 1800

Note

"A catalogue of philosophical, optical, and mathematical instruments, made and sold by Benjamin Martin": pp.[28]-32.
Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.
Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Indexed In (note)

English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

642233208
ECCO1-N9399

Author

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Title

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.

Imprint

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

Edition

The fourth edition.

Reproduction

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

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, N9399.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

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