CONTACT LENS HISTORY: HOW CONTACT LENSES HAVE DEVELOPED THROUGH THE YEARS The history of contact lenses Contact lenses have a remarkable history that goes back more than 500 years. It seems that people have always wanted a way to see clearly without having to rely on eyeglasses. It was simply a matter of time before the technology was available to deliver a practical solution. Contact lens history is an interesting subject to learn about, especially for those who rely on these tiny but complex items. The History of Contact Lenses Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with the first conception of the idea of contact lenses in 1508 , in Codex Of The Eye, Manual D. Here, he described a means of manipulating the corneal power by either submerging someone's entire head in a bowl of water, or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye. Obviously, neither idea was very practical in his time, or in any other, for that matter, but he was not sug...
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