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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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Recent News Articles: July 2013, Treasures Magazine and Winter 2014, Pitt Magazine |
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 Illustration of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) in the hospital, from the wonderful children’s book The Little Story of Gaudi, copyright Editorial Mediterrania, Barcelona, ISBN 978-84-8334-222-0 |
 Group of three magnifiers and one eyeglass case, made from Mother of Pearl, BOA Museum Collection |
 Clemens Holzmeister (1886-1983), as seen in the Grosses Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall), Salzburg, Austria which was designed in 1956 by Holzmeister, photo credit to Professor Dr Franz Daxecker |
 Optical fan, cockade, horn and blond tortoiseshell with silk, early 19th century, Gilson Collection unique |
 The Creator of the Greek Figures (Greek Masquerade), by Edmond Alexander Petitot (1727-1801), engraving by Begnino Bossi, Parma, Italy, 1771. Notice the very unusual square framed spectacles |
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Afrikaans |
bril |
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Albanian |
syze, gjyzlykë |
| American English | Eyeglasses |
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Arabic |
نظارات , ببهرجة. Nazzarat |
| Bosnian | naočare |
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Bulgarian |
очила |
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Catalan |
ulleres |
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Czech |
brejle |
| Danish | Briller |
| Dutch | Bril |
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Esperanto |
okulvitroj |
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Finnish |
silmälasit |
| French | Lunettes (Little moons) |
| German | Brillen (The material from which the lenses were made.) |
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Greek |
γυαλιά |
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Hebrew |
משקפים Mischkafayim |
| Hindi | Ai'nak |
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Hungarian |
szemüveg |
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Indonesian |
kaca mata |
| Italian | Occhiale (Indicative of a second pair of eyes) |
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Japanese |
Megane, Aitai |
| Kiswahili (Tanzania) | miwani |
| Lithuanian | akiniai, pensne, akulioriai |
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Lombard |
oggiaj |
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Manx |
speckleyryn |
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Norwegian |
briller |
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Papiamen |
brel di bista, brel |
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Pig Latin |
ectaclesspay |
| Polish | Okulary, okularz |
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Portuguese |
óculos (Oculos) |
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Romanian |
ochelari |
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Russian |
очки (Ochki) |
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Scottish |
speuclair |
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Serbo-Croatian |
naočari |
| Slovak | okuliare |
| Spanish | Gafas, Anteojos (something placed before the eyes), Espejuelos |
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Sranan |
aygrasi |
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Swedish |
glasögon |
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Turkish |
gözlük |
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Turkmen |
дяnek |
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Ukrainian |
кольорове скло світлофора, окуляри |
| Urdu | Chashmaa |
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Welsh |
sbectol. |
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Zulu |
izibuko |
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