{"id":632,"date":"2017-05-31T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/i-am-trying-to-find-historical-references-to\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:33:58","slug":"i-am-trying-to-find-historical-references-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/i-am-trying-to-find-historical-references-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am trying to find historical references to sunglasses or shades. All I can find are references to unreliable sources and dead ends. If you search ’12th century chinese sunglasses’ lots of articles appear but again, nothing I can use. Do you see anything in the later SCA time period? Thanks!!<\/p>Anonymous<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

*blows dust off Tumblr*<\/p>\n

HI THERE.<\/p>\n

So the issue I\u2019m running into is a lot of books\/websites make reference to smokey quartz being used in 12th century China to shield the eyes\/expressions of judges in court – but there\u2019s no citation for this. Which, as a SCAdian Sinologist, makes me raise an eyebrow.<\/p>\n

LIke this image being captioned as 12th century smokey quartz glasses. I don\u2019t believe it, because I don\u2019t trust random Tumblr\/Pinterest user as a reliable source.<\/p>\n

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Yeeeaaaah.<\/p>\n

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I do have images of Tang Dynasty eye-shades, from Secrets of the Silk Road<\/a>\u00a0(2010). They were only used as grave goods, though. Apparently the afterlife requires sunglasses. (Really, it was protection against sand and such, not unlike Inuit eyeshades.)<\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s what I found – but remember your CRAAP test when going through these resources.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/melnickmedicalmuseum.com\/2010\/02\/17\/medieval-sunglasses\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Developments in optometry can be traced back to the 1st century AD<\/p>\n

The quest to correct and improve vision is one of man\u2019s oldest medical challenges.<\/a>
By Victoria Ward<\/a>
The Telegraph, November 3, 2010<\/p>\n

Medieval optometric <\/b>traditions.<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]L Bieganowski – HINDSIGHT: Journal of Optometry History, 2009 – scholarworks.iu.edu
You can view more past issues of this journal here. [link<\/a>]\n

SPECTACLES MENTIONED IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE<\/a>\u00a0(just a citation)
A Barnett
American Journal of Optometry and Archives of American Academy of Optometry. 19(2):92, FEB 1942<\/p>\n

Franciscus Maurolycus and his Photismi de Lumine, a chapter in late medieval optics.<\/a>\u00a0(just a citation)
(PMID:4922899)
Tannebaum S<\/a>
Journal of the American Optometric Association<\/a>
[01 Oct 1970, 41(10):868-869]\n

http:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2016\/03\/medieval-eyeglasses-wearable-technology-of-the-thirteenth-century\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.antiquespectacles.com\/history\/ages\/through_the_ages.htm<\/a>
This one makes me go mnnneeeh, but it has some images and some footnotes, though the whole thing isn\u2019t cited super well imho.<\/p>\n

The Invention of Spectacles between the East and the West<\/a>
Interesting perspective – because SO MANY of these articles tend to be Euro-centric. This is refreshing, and has citations! Whee!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ideafinder.com\/history\/inventions\/sunglasses.htm<\/a>
This is one Wikipedia cites, and while it has some book references, those books don\u2019t really have citations. So I\u2019m kind of meh.<\/p>\n

An uncommon history of common things. Volume 2<\/a>
Author:\u00a0National Geographic Society (U.S.)<\/a>
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2015]\n

Panati\u2019s extraordinary origins of everyday things<\/a>
Author:\u00a0Charles Panati<\/a>
Publisher: New York, NY : Chartwell Books, 2016.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am trying to find historical references to sunglasses or shades. All I can find are references to unreliable sources and dead ends. If you search ’12th century chinese sunglasses’ lots of articles appear but again, nothing I can use. Do you see anything in the later SCA time period? Thanks!! Anonymous *blows dust off … Continue reading “Chinese Sunglasses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[228],"tags":[67,135,100,160,162,116,112,159,163,161],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-ac","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}