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To the Editors:Henry Petroski's Engineering column "The Evolution of Eyeglasses" (September-October) is characteristically informative. Petroski suggests that we do not know why centuries passed between the invention of eyeglasses and the invention of telescopes and microscopes. Vasco Ronchi provided a clear and persuasive explanation in his 1970 book The Nature of Light. He noted 13th-century scholars' "emphatic and unanimous" rejection of the idea that glass lenses could have any consequences for science. Ronchi explains that glass lenses were qualitatively incompatible with ancient Greek theories of optics, which, strange as it may seem, were still predominant in the late Middle Ages. It took almost three centuries for the visible facts of lenses to overcome this entrenched theoretical bias. A closely related discussion is provided in a paper I recently published in Ecological Psychology.
机译:致编者:亨利·佩特尔斯基(Henry Petroski)的工程专栏“眼镜的演变”(9月至10月)具有丰富的信息。 Petroski建议我们不知道为什么在眼镜的发明与望远镜和显微镜的发明之间经过了几个世纪。瓦斯科·朗奇(Vasco Ronchi)在1970年出版的《光的本质》中提供了清晰而有说服力的解释。他指出13世纪的学者“强调并一致”反对玻璃镜片可能对科学产生任何影响的观点。罗奇(Ronchi)解释说,玻璃镜片在质量上与古希腊的光学理论不相容,虽然看起来很奇怪,但在中世纪后期仍然占主导地位。镜头的可见事实花了将近三个世纪的时间才能克服这种根深蒂固的理论偏见。我最近在《生态心理学》上发表的一篇论文中提供了密切相关的讨论。

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    《American Scientist》 |2014年第1期|3-5|共3页
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