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Spectacles and the Victorians : Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
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