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30 On the wealth of Filippo Strozzi, who by the end of the fifteenth century became almost as rich as the Medici, see Goldthwaite, R., Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence. A Study of Four Families (Princeton, 1968), pp. 52–73.Google Scholar

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21 Florence, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Mediceo avanti il Principato, filza xiv, N. 29. The first seven lines of this letter follow: ‘Io sì ò recevuto vostra letra e quatro para d'ochiali per le mano di Pessolo, vostro fattore, de chuale ve rengrazio grandemente. Vero é che ve n'era uno paro ch'era roto li vetri, per la chuale ve prego che me mandiate chualche vetri che siano bone. Io li voree che fusono vetri che se vedese da presso in peroché’ chueli m'avete mandati sono ochiali da la di longa, salvo uno paro che sono da presso. Fate che Chola d'Arezo, oraffo, ve mostre chuele m[…] che a me n'à dato per altre volte; li fae bone, e perché non s'abiono materia di rompere chueste vetre, io ve mando uno chasetino dove abiono a stare e dite al maestro che le fae, me le manda grosso de vetro sono migliore. Mandatimone insino a otto o desse de chueli vetri. Avisatime del chosto e daroe a Pessolo… . ’ Ardouino's letter, which came to my attention after the first draft of this article had been completed, was discovered by Professor Charles M. Rosenberg of the State University of New York at Brockport. Professor Rosenberg generously sent me a Xerox copy of the letter along with his transcription of the beginning seven lines dealing with eyeglasses, which are here published with his permission and with my emendations. The Xerox copy, in fact, is not clear in places, but the questionable readings do not alter the substance of the message. I am also grateful to Professor Creighton Gilbert who alerted me to this discovery.

34 Taddei, , L'arte del vetro in Firenze, pp. 64–72 Google Scholar; Ronchi, , Scritti di ottica, pp. 267–288, 441-451.Google Scholar

17 See, for example, Queller, D. E., The Office of the Ambassador in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1967), pp. 158ff.Google Scholar

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15 My own study of the diplomatic correspondence between Milan and Florence at this time has established that dispatches normally reached their destination in about two days.

2 Ronchi's latest statement on this question was published in his article ‘A Fascinating Outline of the History of Science. Two Thousand Years of Conflict Between “Reason”hundred and “Sense,” ‘ Atti della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi, 30 (1975), 530, where, in discussing the late discovery of concave lenses, he wrote: ‘Naturally I tried to find out when, who, where and by whom had concave glass disks been used to correct myopia. So far it has not been possible to give an answer to these questions. Furthermore: I have no evidence that any other historian of optics has ever asked these questions. Certainly this great step forward was accomplished in a rather late period: in all the literature and in all the historical documents (and I can add that they are many) known to me, the first mention of the existence of diverging lenses I found in a book with the title “La pratica della prospettiva” by the Venetian architect, Daniele Barbaro (1513-1570), published in Venice in 1568.’ In an earlier book, consisting of excerpts from early writings on optics, Scritti di ottica(Milan, 1968), p. 125, n. 3, Ronchi wrote of Maurolico's contribution in these terms: ‘É la prima volta che l'effetto convergente e divergente delle lenti é interpretato giustamente, per spiegare perché le lenti convergenti correggono la presbiopia e quelle divergenti la miopia. Il ragionamento é qualitative é intuitivo; ma é ammirevole la sua logica.’

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1 This is the conclusion reached by E. Rosen in his definitive article, ‘The Invention of Eyeglasses,’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 11 (1956), 13-46,183-218. The inventor is unknown, but he probably came from Pisa. This article contains all the essential bibliography on the invention and early development of spectacles.

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18 Milan, Archivio di Stato, Registri delle Missive, Reg. 77, fol. 89v. The complete Italian text, including the list, follows:

35 The influence of the rediscovery of linear perspective on the development of cartography in early fifteenth-century Florence has been admirably treated by Edgerton, S. Y. Jr., The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective (New York, 1975), chaps, vii-viii.Google Scholar

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5 Ronchi's views have been published in a number of works: Galileo e il cannocchiate (Udine, 1942; Turin, 1964), passim; Optics. The Science of Vision, tr. and revised by E. Rosen (New York, 1957), pp. 32-33, 37-39, 46; Scritti di ottica, pp. xx-xxvii; The Nature of Light. An Historical Survey, tr. V. Barocas (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), pp. 69-76, 78- 109; New Optics (Florence, 1971), pp. 26-27, 36, 47-53; ‘A Fascinating Outline,’ pp. 527-532, 552-554.

11 Ibid., pp. 529 and 552, where Ronchi estimates ‘one page’ and ‘half page,’ respectively. In his Scritti di ottica, p. xxii, he estimates two pages considering the writings of philosophers and laymen combined.

29 ‘Questa mia é scritta cogli occhiali: rileggete e rivolgete più d'una volta, tanto che la intendiate bene.’ Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, Lettere, p. 347.

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26 For the history, administration, and resources of the duchy of Milan in the fifteenth century, see Catalano, F. et al., Treccani Storia di Milano, Vol. vii, L'età sforzesca dal 1450 al 1500 (Milan, 1956)Google Scholar; Cipolla, C., “I precedenti economici,” ibid.,Vol. viii (Milan, 1957)Google Scholar; and Barbieri, G., Economia e politica nel Ducato di Milano (1386-1535) (Milan, 1938).Google Scholar For the development of Milanese diplomatic institutions under the Sforza and the huge volume of extant documentation, see Ilardi, V., ‘Fifteenth-Century Diplomatic Documents in Western European Archives and Libraries (1450-1494),’ Studies in the Renaissance, 9 (1962), 67–73 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Cerioni, L., La diplomazia sforzesca nella seconda metà del Quattrocento e i suoi cifrari segreti, 2 vols. (Rome, 1970).Google Scholar

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14 Nicodemo Tranchedini to Giovanni Simonetta, Florence, November 4, 1462, Milan, Archivio di Stato, Potenze Estere-Firenze, cart. 270. The relevant portions of this letter follow: ‘Illustri [?] Domino Iohannes. El nostro Illustrissimo Signore, per soa littera sottoscripta de vostra mane, me scrive gli mandi tre dozine d'ochiali et che gli drizi ad voy et avisi de quel costano, che me manderà li denari. Mandovi dicti ochiali alligati ad questi, quali costano tre ducati perché gli ho voluti in totale perfectione. Non voglio ad verun modo dichiate el costo ad Sua Celsitudine, perchè el facto mio non sta cum Soa Excellentia in questi minuzoli. Et quando oltra ala mia provisione ho voluto da luy denari, cavali et altre cose, non é stato scarso meco, ma factomi più che non ho meritato. Quello che voglio da voy e che me recomandiate strectamente ad Soa Sublimità, et quella avisiati che per essere stato circa doy anni senza havere havuto cosa veruna de la provisione me da, mi trovo oltra al stentare como cane, in debito de parechie centenara de ducati… . Et pur in quest'anno ho havuto mandare a Madona doe some de bianco et vermiglio, che me costò circa 19 ducati cum le victure et gabelle. Questo inverno anche gli manday al Signore 18 para d'ochiali fine, mandare de li mei cum soe littere etc. A tucto va denari, et non ne havendo da Soa Sublimità, non ne posso havere da altri. Siché pregate Soa Sublimità m'aiuti fin a la morte, et ad quella enixe me recomando… . Lecta questa strazatella.’ Written on the verso of the letter: ‘Questi ochiali sono de quatro maniere. Veda el Signore de quali vole et avisatemene, che gli manderò quanti piacera ad Soa Celsitudine.’

19 Ronchi (Scritti di ottka, p. xxi, and ‘A Fascinating Outline,’ p. 529) has already noted this advance in Renaissance optics, but he does not give the date of this discovery and cites no documents.

37 Historians of Milanese society and costume, however, make no mention of spectacles. See Pisetzky, R. Levi, ‘L'apogeo dell'eleganza milanese durante il Ducato,’ Treccani Storia di Milano, Vol. VIII (Milan, 1957)Google Scholar; Verga, E., Storia della vita milanese, 2nd ed. (Milan, 1931)Google Scholar; and Valeri, F. Malaguzzi, La corte di Lodovico il Moro, 2nd ed., 4 vols. (Milan, 1915-29).Google Scholar

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Perché sonno molti che ne domandano delli ochiali che se fanno li ad Fiorenza, attento che la fama é che se fanno in più perfectione che in veruno altro loco de Italia, volemo te te [sic] commettiamo che ne deby mandare tre docene de dicti occhiali, acconzati in schatole che non se possano rumpere; zoé una docena de quelli sonno apti et convenienti ad la vista longa, zoé da zovene; et un'altra che siano convenienti ad la vista curta, zoé de vechy; et la terza da vista comune. Li quali te aviso non volemo per nostro uso, perché per la grazia de Dio nuy non ne havemo bisogno, ma li volemo per compiaceme ad questo et quello che ne li domandano. Mandandoli per le poste de nostri cavallari, li quali drizaray in mano de Zohanne Symonetta, nostro secretario, et avisandone de quello costarano perché te mandaremo li denari. Datum Mediolani XXI October 1462.

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43 Most of these works, as well as others not mentioned here, are reproduced in Heymann, Lunettes, passim, and in E. C. Watson, ‘The Invention of Spectacles,’ American Journal of Physics, 21 (1953), 56-57. The former is the most extensive survey to date of early representations of eyeglasses in art. Three such portraits of St. Bernardino were painted by Pietro di Giovanni Ambrosi (1448), Bartolomeo Caporali (1488), and by Francesco di Gentile da Fabriano (undated) but presumed to be of the late fifteenth century, all reproduced in Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, new ed., II (London, 1968), Nos. 572, 680, and 978 respectively.Google Scholar

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20 See Jackson, E., ‘Historic Evolution and Use of Spectacles,’ American Journal of Ophthalmology, to (1927), 607–608 Google Scholar, and Gordon, ‘A Short History of Spectacles,’ p. 7.

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12 Ronchi errs in stating that no writing of any kind about eyeglasses is known for the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth: ‘Nulla si conosce del secolo XV e della prima metá del XVI,’ (Scritti di ottica, p.xxii).For already known references to spectacles in fifteenth-century texts, see Heymann, Madame Alfred, Lunettes et lorgnettes de jadis (Paris, 1911), pp. 2ff.Google Scholar

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36 See von Schlosser, J., ed., Lorenzo Ghibertis Denkwürdigkeiten (I Commentarii) (Berlin, 1912), Book III, esp. pp. 56, 121, 169-172, 184, 190-217, 220.Google Scholar Ghiberti's treatise, however, is composed largely of passages taken from ancient and medieval writers on optics. For Alberti's treatises, De pictura and Elementi di Pittura, see Alberti, L. B., Opere volgari, ed Grayson, C., III (Bari, 1973), 7–129.Google Scholar Professor Edgerton has informed me that he has not noticed any references to eyeglasses in works on perspective of the age, although he has not specifically looked for them.

25 I have checked the correspondence with the ambassadors Antonio Guidobono, from September through November 1462, and with Gerardo de’ Colli from May through July 1466, Milan, Archivio di Stato, Potenze Estere-Venezia, cart. 349 and 353 respectively.

24 On this question, see Rosen, ‘The Invention of Eyeglasses,’ pp. 211-217. For Venetian guild regulations, see also Gasparetto, A., Il vetro di Murano dalle origini adoggi (Venice, 1958), pp. 52–63 Google Scholar, who, unaware of Rosen's article, tentatively accepted the Venetian origin of spectacles (p. 60, n. 59).

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50 I have read the dispatches of Delia Scalona in 1462 and those of Andreasi from June through July 1466, Mantua, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Gonzaga, Carteggio-Milano, buste 1622 and 1623 respectively.

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39 These references by Petrarch and Sacchetti are well known, but they bear repeating because they are particularly significant in this context. Petrarch reveals in his Letter to Posterity (dated before, 1367 with additions in 1370-71) that at the age of sixty he felt the need to use eyeglasses: ‘I was possessed of a clear complexion, between light and dark, lively eyes, and for long years a keen vision, which however deserted me, contrary to my hopes, after I reached my sixtieth birthday, and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses’ (Petrarch. A Humanist Among Princes. An Anthology of Petrarch's Letters and Selections from His Other Works, ed. D. Thompson [New York, 1971], p. 2). In his De remediis utriusque fortunae, Book 11, chap. 93 (written between 1354 and 1366), the poet extols man's dignity and ingenuity, in contrast to the helpless condition of animals, as shown by his capacity to invent remedies to correct imperfections in his body: ‘Finally he [man] aids and lifts himself in all ways; even when losing limbs he learns to make wooden feet, iron hands, wax noses, and to resist the accidents of chance; he erects failing health by medicines; he excites weakened taste by flavours, and failing sight he restores by eye-glasses’ (quoted by Trinkaus, C., In Our Image and Likeness. Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, 1 [Chicago, 1970], 194 Google Scholar; original Latin text, 399-400, n. 34).

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4 ‘The Sense of Vision and the Origins of Modern Science,’ in Debus, A. G., ed., Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance. Essays to Honor Walter Pagel, 1 (New York, 1972), 29.Google Scholar

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28 Filze cxxxi and cxxxiii of the third series of the Carte Strozziane in the Florentine State Archives contain many letters by the Strozzi, including those by Alessandra published by Guasti, and they may contain Filippo's letters in question.

42 French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols. (London and New York, 1967), 1, 5, reproductions in II, Nos. 296-297, 826.

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22 Ronchi (Scritti di ottica, p. 27) cited this passage from Codex F, fol. 25: ‘Questo ochiale di cristallo debbe essere netto di machie e molto chiaro e da lati debbe essere grosso un'oncia d'un'oncia cioè 1/144 di braccio e sia sottile in mezo secondo la vista che lui l'à adoprare, cioè secondo la proportione di quelli occhiali che a lui stanno bene.’ Ronchi claims that Leonardo simply wanted to indicate the degree of curvature of a convex lens, and adds that ‘per quanto non si abbiano notizie di sorta circa il periodo in cui si cominciarono a fare lenti divergenti, non sembra che al tempo di Leonardo tali lenti fossero ancora state introdotte nell'uso’ (pp. 27-28, n. 2).

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27 ‘A Giovanni Bonsi [Alessandra's son-in-law, also residing in Florence] farò comperare gli occhiali e de’ più fini, come tu di', e per primo si manderanno. Questo di si comperorno gli occhiali, e ti si mandano sotto lettere di Niccolo Strozzi a Roma pel fante: sì che fa’ d'avergli… .’ Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, Lettere di una gentildonna fiorentina del secolo XV ai figliuoli esuli, ed. C. Guasti (Florence, 1877), p. 277. Both sentences were written on the same day (March 23), but earlier portions of the letter were written on the preceding day, which means that the spectacles were purchased in a day or less. For reference to this and the following letter by Alessandra Strozzi, I am indebted to Ellen Potash, an undergraduate at Brown University, who in her research on the family in the fifteenth century kept her eyes open and found the two passages here cited.

For suggestions and bibliographical references I am indebted to Professors Frederic C. Lane, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Edith W. Kirsch, and Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. Professor Edward Rosen has kindly shared with me his extensive knowledge of the history of eyeglasses and has encouraged me to publish the following documents. I am also grateful to William C. Cooley, Doctor of Ophthalmology, and Donald S. Call, Optician, for scientific and technological advice.

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3 For unsupported statements about the existence of concave lenses in the early sixteenth century, see King, H. C., The History of the Telescope (Cambridge, Mass., 1955), p. 28 Google Scholar, and Gordon, B. L., ‘A Short History of Spectacles,’ Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 48, no. 1 (1951), 6, n. 12.Google Scholar In the chapter ‘Glass,’ in the Oxford History of Technology, ed. C. Singer et al., III (New York and London, 1957), 231, L. M. Angus-Butterworth wrote: ‘No reference to concave lenses for the correction of myopia appears to precede that of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) in the mid-fifteenth century.’ The author supplied no exact reference to Nicholas’ writings, but he probably had in mind the treatise De beryllo, written in 1450, where Nicholas described beryl as a ‘bright, clear and transparent stone, to which a concave as well as a convex form is given; by looking through it you reach what was previously invisible’ (quoted by Rosen, ‘The Invention of Eyeglasses,’ p. 206, n. 290, who rightly pointed out the difference between a piece of beryl used as a magnifying glass and spectacles). It is possible, however, that Nicholas knew of the existence of concave lenses since they were in use at Florence and Milan during his time, as will be shown below.

48 I have not found any Lombard works of art depicting eyeglasses up to the end of the fifteenth century after consulting the following publications: Toesca, P., La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia. Dai più antichi monumenti alla metà del Quattrocento (Milan, 1912; rpt. Turin, 1966)Google Scholar; Gengaro, M. L. and Arano, L. Cogliati, Miniature lombarde. Codici miniati dall'VIII al XIV secolo (Milan, 1970)Google Scholar; Meiss, M. and Kirsch, E. W., The Visconti Hours (New York, 1972)Google Scholar; Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, rev. ed., 3 vols. (London, 1968)Google Scholar; D'Ancona, P. and Aeschlimann, E., The Art of Illumination. An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, tr. Brown, A. M. (London and New York, 1969)Google Scholar; and all the art sections in the Treccani Storia de Milano, Vols, v-viii (1310-1535) (Milan, 1955-57). Admittedly this represents a very small sampling of published works and a minute fraction of the total production, but the fact that spectacles have been found more readily in art outside Lombardy is significant in itself.

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Five recently discovered documents reveal for the first time that eyeglasses with concave lenses for myopes were manufactured in Florence from at least the middle of the fifteenth century, about one hundred years before they were thought to be in use. This new evidence throws additional light on the development and early use of spectacles and on the early history of optical instruments and glass technology in general. These documents also reveal for the first time that Florence was the leading manufacturing center of high-quality eyeglasses and that spectacles had already become a prestigious item of personal adornment at least at the court of the dukes of Milan. This information should be of interest to historians of art and costume as well.

8 Some oculists as late as the nineteenth century believed that the use of spectacles with concave lenses might deform the eye. See Sorsby, A., A Short History of Ophthalmology, 2nd ed. (London and New York, 1948), p. 73.Google Scholar

16 Tranchedini to G. Simonetta, Florence, November 20, 1462, Milan, Archivio di Stato, Potenze Estere-Firenze, cart. 270: ‘Ad me é stato gratissimo el piacere scrivete hano havuto quelli nostri Illustrissimi Signori et Madona […] ochiali gli manday, ma molto maiore consolatione ho havuta che non vedano [cum] quelli da vechii et cum quelli da zoveni si, perhoché’ questo é il bixogno nostro. Ma non me piace Soa Celsitudine me mandi li denari che costorono et cossì il vino et l'altri, como scrivete. Desiderarey, et cossì ve ne prego gli faciate intendere, che como suo fameglio non posso stare qui col poco et quel poco anche non havere. Et pregassivo Soa Celsitudine [se] degnissi havermi compassione, ex consequenti aiutarmi, o saltern me consiglii che modo ho ad tenere a vivere, che non m'aiuti Nostro Signore Dio, se per mille ducati ussissi de li debiti me retrovo adosso, il che me fa stare in extrema desperatione….’ The top left portion of this dispatch, marked by bracketed ellipsis, is torn off.

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Unless otherwise noted, all documents here cited form part of my extensive microfilm collection of Renaissance diplomatic documents.

23 This passage, which is not cited by Ronchi, was transcribed and translated by Richter, J. P., The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts, 2nd ed., II (London, 1883; rpt. New York: Dover, 1970), N. 909, 168.Google Scholar Richter (p. 136) believes that Leonardo was using magnifying glasses and not a telescope to observe the moon since ‘telescopes were first made about 1600.’

47 There is no mention of eyeglasses in connection with fifteenth-century portraits either in Pope-Hennessy, J., The Portrait in the Renaissance (New York, 1966)Google Scholar or in Alazard, J., The Florentine Portrait, tr. Whelpton, B. (New York, 1968, first published in 1948).Google Scholar

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7 Ibid., pp. 553-554. The same views are also expressed in Ronchi's earlier publications listed in n. 5. For the development of the microscope, see also Disney, A. N., Origin and Development of the Microscope (London, 1928).Google Scholar

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CMOS sensors are also faster than their CCD counterparts because CMOS chips can incorporate functionality directly into the chip. In addition to capturing photons, they can carry out other operations important to creating quality images. Because of this multifunction design, the electrical charges can be read more easily and quickly, resulting in faster readout times.

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A CMOS sensor is an electronic chip that converts photons to electrons for digital processing. The chip is based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, which is widely used for many of today's integrated circuits. CMOS itself is a type of metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), a common type of field-effect transistor that can act as an electrical switch or amplifier.

At the same time, the CCD architecture also offers several benefits over CMOS. CCD sensors have long been known for producing less noise, achieving greater light sensitivity and delivering higher image quality. That said, advances in CMOS technology have greatly improved CMOS sensors, and the distinction in quality between the two types is no longer as clear-cut as it once was.

Perché haveressemo caro havere li ochiali, li quali te mandiamo notati in la lista qui inclusa, volemo che havuta questa debii vedere de recattarli che siano in perfectione per le etate como dice dicta lista; et mandarneli facendoli mettere in qualche scatola ben asettati et separati l'una sorte da l'altra cum li scripti attacati, in modo che quando li habiamo sapiamo discernere l'una sorte da l'altra; avisandone de quello costarano perché te faremo provisione al pagamento. Mediolani XIII iunii 1466.

38 For earliest references to eyeglasses, see Rosen, ‘The Invention of Eyeglasses,’ pp. 201-204; Heymann, Lunettes, passim, and Greeff, R., Die Erfindung der Augengläser (Berlin, 1921), pp. 101–103.Google Scholar

33 On the preeminence and influence of the Venetian glass industry in Europe through the seventeenth century, see Gasparetto, , Il vetro di Murano, pp. 66–70, 100-112Google Scholar; Mariacher, G., Il vetro europeo dal XV al XX secolo (Novara, 1964), pp. 77–92 Google Scholar; and Davis, F., Continental Glass from Roman to Modem Times (London, 1972), passim. Google Scholar

40 Sacchetti narrates a story about a certain Tommaso Baronci, a Florentine Prior around 1358, on whom his colleagues had played a friendly trick by reversing his shoes. Baronci had to put on his spectacles to ascertain whether the shoes were his: ‘Elle [the shoes] non paiono le mia, benche io non le veggo bene, se io non ho gli occhiali. E cavossi gli occhiali da lato, e misseseli, e con essi si chinava quanto potea, facendosi verso la finestra’ ( Sacchetti, F., Il trecentonovelle, ed. Faccioli, E. [Turin, 1970], p. 214 Google Scholar).

The writing in this letter and in the preceding two is faded in places. I am indebted to my collaborator, Dr. Mario Fara, who has transcribed these passages from the originals.

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The CMOS architecture also reduces the amount of power needed to capture an image. In contrast to CMOS sensors, CCD sensors must actively use power to gather light because the cells are not surrounded by transistors, causing them to be less power-efficient.