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Through The Looking Glasses - 'Exuberant...glasses changed the world' Sunday Times (Hardcover)
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Through The Looking Glasses - 'Exuberant...glasses changed the world' Sunday Times (Hardcover)
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'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield The humble pair
of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions,
allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a
blur. And yet how much do many of us even really think about these
things perched on the ends of our noses? In this eye-opening
history Travis Elborough traces the fascinating true story of
spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids to
monkish scribes right through to today's designer eyewear and the
augmented reality of Google Glass. And taking in along the way such
delights as lorgnettes, monocles, pince-nez, tortoise-shell
'Windsors' and Ray Ban aviator shades. Peering into early theories
about how the eye worked, he considers the theological and
philosophical arguments about the limits of perception by Greek
thinkers, Roman statesmen and Arab scholars. There are encounters
with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance
rulers and spectacle-makers and opticians, brilliant, mad, bad and
dangerous to know, in the Londons of Samuel Pepys, Dr Johnson and
Sherlock Holmes. We learn how eyeglasses were the making of the
silent movie star Harold Lloyd and the rock n roller Buddy Holly
and helped liberate an exasperated John Lennon from Beatlemania.
Get hip to horn-rims with Dizzy Gillespie and Michael Caine And see
girls in glasses through the lenses of the crime fiction by Dorothy
L Sayers and Raymond Chandler and the full-screen figure of Marilyn
Monroe. Through the Looking Glasses is about vision and the need
for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our
eyesight has led us. The society of the spectacle may finally be
upon us . . . but how much of it do we really see?
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