Before glasses, people with farsightedness might not have noticed vision problems unless they engaged in close-up work like engraving. People with nearsightedness had limited options. The rise of reading increased the need for vision correction.
Reading contributed to the rise of myopia.
Hereditary myopia exists, but reading significantly impacts vision.
Glasses as we know them have only been around for a few hundred years. So what did people do before this? And how did things change once spectacles were on the scene? Listen in to find out.