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Little Inventions: Glasses
Raphael Fejto
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Description for Little Inventions: Glasses
Hardback. Little Inventions is an illustrated series of kid-sized books about objects that children encounter every day without any thought of how, where and when they were invented. Series: Little Inventions. Num Pages: 32 pages, Full colour throughout. BIC Classification: YNT. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 276 x 179 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
The Romans made the first important discovery about vision. They found that you could see better by looking through a bowl of water, which made what you were looking at bigger. An English monk used glass to make a shaped magnifying device. Over time, these glass lenses got better, but the biggest problem was how to keep them on your head. Designs went from balancing the glasses on your nose to tying them with a ribbon, holding them with a handle, and then finally using wire arms that hook behind the ears. Little Inventions by Raphael Fejto is a series ... Read more
The Romans made the first important discovery about vision. They found that you could see better by looking through a bowl of water, which made what you were looking at bigger. An English monk used glass to make a shaped magnifying device. Over time, these glass lenses got better, but the biggest problem was how to keep them on your head. Designs went from balancing the glasses on your nose to tying them with a ribbon, holding them with a handle, and then finally using wire arms that hook behind the ears. Little Inventions by Raphael Fejto is a series ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Little Inventions
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781770857476
SKU
V9781770857476
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Raphael Fejto
Raphael Fejto wrote his first book at school at 11 years old, and by 12 he had become a child actor. He went on to make films, including as co-star in Louis Malle's 'Au revoir, les enfants' in 1987. He lives in Paris, where he has written and illustrated over 30 children's books.
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