Painted Spectacles: Evidence of the Mughal Paintings for the Correction of Vision

Tutul Chakravarti and Ranabir Chakravarti

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Abstract: This interdisciplinary study of Ophthalmology in India during the premodern times highlights the evidence of spectacles depicted in a few Mughal paintings. The study also demonstrates that there was a very rich history of optics and refraction in the medieval Islamic world. [Occasional Paper No. 38].

Keywords: mughal paintings; spectacles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03
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