Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Who invented glasses? As in, who first used lenses to correct for vision errors

It turns out that glasses were first used by Italian monks! They were reading religious texts and copying them by hand, and glasses greatly helped them with that (especially as they got older)

Learn more about the surprising history of glasses in the full video on the Vision Vibes YouTube channel!

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