ILARDI, Vincent
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Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007.Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsightedness were in use a half-century earlier than had been believed. Subjects: ECONOMICS, BIOMEDICAL › History of Biomedical Economics, OPHTHALMOLOGY › History of Ophthalmology, Optometry › Spectacles, Renaissance Medicine › History of Renaissance Medicine |