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.
- Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.
- Date:
- [1756]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for the author, and sold at his house, two Doors below Crane-Court, Fleet-Street, [1756]
Physical description
24,3,[1]p.,plate ; 80.
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References note
ESTC N17512
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.