An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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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