Eyeglasses Coloring Page

Nobody knows who invented eyeglasses, but it happened in northern Italy around 1286. A friar in Pisa said in a sermon in 1306 that they had been invented less than 20 years before.

The first ones were two magnifying lenses in frames joined by a rivet, and you held them up to your nose. They helped monks and scholars keep reading as they got older, because most people's close-up eyesight starts to fade with age. Glasses with arms that hook over the ears didn't come along until the 1700s.