What was life like for people with poor eyesight during the pre-modern eras? Were there any odd solutions people devised prior to the invention of eyeglasses?

by WonderfullyBatty
CourtnusP

Yes! I think about this often. As someone with horrible eyesight, I tend to think that in early human history, I’d have just been eliminated in a Darwinian way. How/when did poor eyesight not mean you were evolutionary dross?

greenhoney92

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