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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 3

The invention of spectacles may bo traroil to that greatest and most unfortunato man of science, Roger Bacon. His '• (Jreat Work," owing to persecution, remained hidden for many years. In 1270 a copy was presented to Pope Clement, and in 1280 an Italian, Salvino degli Armati, of Florence, brought out a pair of magic glasses in accordance with Bacon's description; the magic glasses were a pair of spectacles. For more than 300 years after Bacon's simple microscope was made into a pair of spectacles, no advauce of importance was effected, though there is record of an Englishman, Leonard Diggles, working early in the sixteenth century on the principles expounded in the " Great Work." To-day knowledge of the human eye is more advanced, and the magic glasses of the thirteenth century Italian are scientific perfection. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/6. %