History Of Eyeglasses: One Of The Most Important Inventions Is Lost To History
AncientPages.com | March 10, 2016
C - AD 65), the Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist used to read "all the books in Rome" by peering at them through a glass globe of water to produce magnification.
The so-called "reading stone" (a magnifying glass) was developed around 1000 A.D. It was a segment of a glass sphere that could be laid against reading material to magnify the letters. It enabled monks to read and was probably the first reading aid.
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