I don't know when I put on a pair of black-rimmed discountglasses, and was called "four-eyed frog" by the fat guy at the back table. I want to sleep on my stomach in class, and I dare not take off my glasses, but it's too much. Gym class basketball, about to block a shot, glasses were knocked off. When I was on duty after school, my glasses slipped off when I was sweating, and the result was that I slipped into a bucket.
But we are always reluctant to give up this small pair of glasses, he accompanies us to school, work, accompany us at night, rainy days, accompany us through spring, summer, autumn and winter... There will inevitably be some small feelings. As everyone knows, many people will be a little unfamiliar with the origin of glasses. Today, we will go through history together and feel the 100-year change of glasses!
The first visual AIDS were invented about 700 years ago
Thousands of years ago, the great civilizations of the Maya, Egypt, China and Greece created amazing achievements. However, when it comes to preserving eyesight, even the greatest scholar can do nothing. Emperor Nero needed an emerald to watch his favorite gladiatorial fights.
Monks invented the first visual AIDS
Eventually, in the 13th century, Italian monks crafted the first half-formed vertical lens by hand. This lens is like a magnifying glass. To make the lenses, the monks used a type of quartz called emeralds. A few years later - in 1267 - Roger Bacon, a Franciscan friar at Oxford, provided scientific evidence that small print could be enlarged with specially shaped vertical lenses.
Murano: Birthplace of eyeglasses
The glass factory in Murano, Venice, which is still renowned all over the world, has reason to claim to be the birthplace of eyeglasses. In the 13th century, they were the only factory capable of making pure soft glass. The first quality standards came out soon after. These glasses, called reading AIDS, have a raised vertical lens with a frame made of iron, horn, or wood. There was a simple, huge lens. In short, the first pair of glasses can only be used as a reading aid for far-sighted people.
Current status of the Murano Museum of Glass in Venice
Products of great importance to the history of development in each period
- 1511 ~1514
Glasses designed by Konrad Seusenhofer for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, as part of a suit of armor.
- 750-710 BC
This is the first lens in human history, produced in the Neo-Assyrian civilization, made of crystal. May have been used as a magnifying glass.
- The first century AD
Emperor Nero used jade as glasses while watching gladiators fight.
- 9th ~ 13th century AD
The "reading stone", made of glass, is placed on paper when used to enlarge the text content.
- 1021
A book written by the Muslim scholar Alhazen (965-1040) is called The Book of Optics. It introduced the content of convex lens imaging, and the Latin translation of the book was of great help to the development of glasses in the future.
- 1250
The first scientific illustration of the magnifying glass principle, drawn by Roger Bacon.
- 1260-1290
The first pair of wearable glasses made in Italy.
- 1351 ~1352
Tommaso da Modena painted the first painting in history of a person wearing glasses.
Discovered in Kloster Wienhausen, Germany, the earliest known eyeglasses.
In 1752
James Ayscough's first pair of sunglasses.
- Dual-purpose mirror of the late 18th century
- 19th century Chinese tortoiseshell mirror
- Monocle
Monocle first appeared in the 1700s, became popular in the 19th century and became a high-end fashion accessory, less used after World War II.
- Polarized sunglasses
In 1929, Edwin Land applied for a patent for Polaroid and incorporated the Polaroid Company.
- Contact lenses
The concept was first proposed by Leonardo Da Vinci, and later a German eye scientist, Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, made the first contact lenses out of heavy blown glass. In 1963, William Feinbloom made plastic contact lenses.
Modern frame glasses
It wasn't until the first two decades of the last century that frame glasses became the visually and anatomically perfect design they are today. Today, glasses come in a wide variety of shapes and materials - the choice can be anything you want. Frame glasses have become the most important visual AIDS in the world and have become a popular fashion accessory.
