Making Inventions Patent
1991; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3106153
ISSN1097-3729
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoFra Giordano went on to tell the faithful assembled that day in Florence's Santa Maria Novella that only twenty years earlier there was discovered the art of making spectacles which help you to see well, and which is one of the best and most necessary in the world .... I myself saw the man who discovered and practiced it, and I talked with him. Lynn White, jr., considered that this sermon by a Dominican monk not only provided our best evidence of the invention of eyeglasses in the 1280s but also sang the praises of the recent invention of invention. It demonstrated that by the early 14th century Europe had arrived at a technological attitude toward problem solving which was to become of inestimable importance for the human condition.'
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