When watching historical programmes, anything playing before let's say 1900, there are sometimes characters wearing glasses. One example coming to mind is Mary in 1995's Pride and Prejudice. I'm wondering how corrected the vision was? They didn't have finely tuned machines like nowadays or is there a manual technique they used? Did glasses back then (19th century and earlier) really give good vision or simply allow the wearer some slight improvement? What if you had really bad eyesight, the -6 and over? What sort of vision did early glasses allow?
2007-01-25
10:21:06
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Elle Dee
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