An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn ... that the common structure of those glasses is ... very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed / [Benjamin Martin].

  • Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.
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1757
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An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn ... that the common structure of those glasses is ... very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed / [Benjamin Martin]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : printed for the author, 1757.

Physical description

24, 3 pages, 1 plate : folded frontispiece ; (8vo)

Edition

2nd ed.

References note

ESTC T191573

Notes

Copy 1 Note: 'Directions' (p. 3) in duplicate. Issued with Directions for the use of the general apparatus of optical instruments.

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