The Invention of Reading Glasses
Ch1.The World Before Lenses
Ch2.Stones of Sight: The Properties of Early Glass and Crystal
Ch3.The Monks of Trecento Italy
Ch4.Riveted Rounds: The First Spectacles
Ch5.The Spread Across Medieval Europe
Ch6.Grinding, Guilds, and the Craft of Lens-Making
Ch7.From Presbyopia to Print: Glasses and the Gutenberg Revolution
Ch8.Legacy in Glass: How Reading Spectacles Reshaped Civilization