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hindsight-3577	Editors, Hindsight	Vol 14, No 2 (1983)	1983	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6237	211	52	They include a description of a millenia-old temple in Mesopotamia in which a goddess was emblematically represented by a pair of staring eyes in copper repousse; a Chinese scholar of the ~1ing Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.) who was described by contemporary chroniclers as having transparent flesh so that his skull, skeleton, and the internal organs of his body \'lere clearly visible; a blinded knight named Rolf in York, England, ca. 1226, who, following weeks of prayer, found himself one day with a new pair of eyes, slightly smaller and of different color but sound enough to provide good vision for the rest of his life; the courtiers of Philip II of Spain (1527-98), who wore big, thick-rimmed spectacles, often unglazed, for 11effection, prestige, and to indicate their noble rank, 11 with the fad continuing within the nobility into the early years of the 18th-century in Spain, though considered quite objectionable in some other countries; the Tyrolean villager who came upon a tiny glass-contained flea of a deceased naturalist which he saw through the lens of a simple microscope in the naturalist's laboratory and took it for 11 The Devil 11 ; a Turkish Governor who was baffled by the camera obscura which traveller Edward Dodwell used to sketch the Acropolis buildings at Athens, Greece, in 1805; and the Hindu juggler who, before India's independence, demonstrated to an English army officer his ability to lift a basket containing a python by means of a thin rope attached to two hollow leaden cups placed over his eyes and retained by su.cti on. On June 11, 1932, after full qualification and several years experience with other Augenoptiker, Theodor Gumpelmayer opened offices for the practice of optics and optometry in Linz, Austria.	cache/hindsight-3577.pdf	txt/hindsight-3577.txt