[MR] Re-enactment/sunglasses

[Irwin]

Actually here is a picture of medieval "sunglasses"

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/hs-online.htm

First Row  - 4th picture

enjoy


YIS,

Lady Perronelle la peintre
mka Debbie Irwin


>I hate to break the news to the reporter that wrote that article or the
> re-enactors who are making a fuss about the historical authenticity of
> sunglasses, but sunglasses were first invented in 1752 by James
> Ayscough an eye glass designer, more than 100 years before the Civil War
> began.  Now although the tinting of the glasses was green and blue and not
> directly made for shielding the eyes from the sun, I have no doubt that
> at least a partial side effect of the tinting was shading the effects
> of the sun.
>
>  Additionally as early as the 1200's Chinese used eye glasses with
> colored glass as adornment or supposed magical powers (not for correcting
> vision problems) with colored glass, which again I am sure had sun
> blocking properties.
>
>  I have also read before that due to impurities in the glass making
> process, glass used for correcting vison in the 13th and 14th centuries
> often had an amber tint to the glass which would reduce glare.
>
>  Just my two cents worth,
>
>  Lord Sebastien de Valmont
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