Was it really true?

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Did Robespierre really have glasses that were tinted green? Or was it some author's imagination? I've read it some books and they mentioned this and some others don't. And i was wondering if it was true or not. It sounds cool. Though it bogs my mind really.

I was just wondering about these weird details; Because i didn't think it was possible back then to do that. XD

Comments

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I've seen recent reports on the use, now, of red and green filters to help people with reading problems: I think it was because it somehow settles the way lettering is seen on white paper for some people previously diagnosed as dyslexic - so maybe this James Ayscough was exploring on similar lines?
Visors, worn on the forehead, were also used in the 19th and early 20thc,though I think they were to shield eyes from candles or other artificial light when reading - you still see them on old cartoons, 1930's Frank Capra films etc. with newspaper editors always wearing them.

[lisotchka.livejournal.com]

I don't think James Ayscough was thinking about dyslexia because it was dentified for the first time by Oswald Berkhan in 1881. I think he was exploring on sight problems as myopia or such like this. It was the very begining of the "scientific" glasses and the "modern sciences" (anntomy, medecine, chemistry, optics, etc.).

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I don't think the condition that the modern-day filters correct is actual dyslexia, but a reading problem that was 'diagnosed' as dyslexia, if you see what I mean - I think dyslexia has been used a lot recently as a catch-all word by teachers/lazy doctors for a variety of sight problems. With Robespierre, though, I've come across suggestions that he may have had migraines, in which case symptoms are light sensitivity, aura, fogginess and other visual weirdness: then again, these people were working long hours by artificial light, so must have all been wrecking their eyes!

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

With Robespierre, though, I've come across suggestions that he may have had migraines, in which case symptoms are light sensitivity, aura, fogginess and other visual weirdness: then again, these people were working long hours by artificial light, so must have all been wrecking their eyes!

If it is true that Robespierre was both nearsighted and farsighted, then it would definitely not be surprizing if he suffered from migraines--I would find it highly unlikely if, in the eighteenth century, he had much luck in finding glasses that could do wonders for both.