Nova Reperta, The Invention of Eyeglasses

PLATE 15. The Invention of Eyeglasses. Fifteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of various people wearing eyeglasses. This scene takes place outside in what appears to be a market setting. On the left a man tries on a pair of eyeglasses. On the right a man with eyeglasses writes in a book, while a woman with eyeglasses reads the piece of paper she is holding. In the middle ground a man in his shop prepares leather to make boots

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1600 1600s Collaert Corrective Inventions Lenses Medicinal Nova Optometry Reperta Seventeeth Technological

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