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Lunette over the main door of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris Charles Sprague Pearce, Rest (1896). Mural in a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A lunette (French lunette , 'little moon') is a crescent- or half-moon–shaped or semi-circular architectural space or feature, variously filled with ...
Man with glasses. A woman with glasses. Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support.
The Musée de la Lunette [1] is a museum of eyeglasses located in Morez (Jura - Franche-Comté), France. [2] It was formerly located in Paris, with the name Musée Pierre Marly - Lunettes et Lorgnettes. [3] The museum was created by Pierre Marly, optician to crowned heads, public figures and celebrities.
This word comes from French lorgnette, from lorgner (to take a sidelong look at), but it is a false friend: the equivalent French name for this (obsolete) optical instrument is face-à-main while lorgnette (or lunette d'approche, longue-vue) usually means a ship captain's (monocular) telescope.
A lunette is a moon-shaped architectural detail. Lunette may also refer to: Lunette (fortification), an outwork consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge; Lunette , a fictional character in the animated television series "Gargoyles" Lunette (geology), a wind-formed crescent dune shape
The first half of the 18th century saw British optician Edward Scarlett perfect temple eyeglasses which would rest on the nose and the ears. The innovations presented by Scarlett would not only spark some to look at aesthetic customization of eyewear for fashion within Europe but also lead Benjamin Franklin to invent bifocals in colonial America. [12]
Inuit snow goggles function by reducing exposure to sunlight, not by reducing its intensity. Since the 13th century and until the spread of contemporary UV-shielding spectacles against snowblindness, Inuit made and wore snow goggles of flattened walrus or caribou ivory with narrow slits to look through to block almost all of the harmful reflected rays of the sun.
In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side.