Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 562

FRANCESCO REDI (1626-1698) Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali. Francesco Onofri 1678 14 pp. 21.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 561

This letter of Redi's concerning the invention of eyeglasses is rare and is not usually found as a separate work. Redi claims that glasses were not known to the ancient Jews, Arabs, Greeks, or Romans and he attributes their invention to a Friar Alessandro Spina of Pisa (d. 1313).

Cited references: Waller 14691 (1690 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.