<P> The first eyeglasses were made in Northern Italy , most likely in Pisa , by about 1290 : In a sermon delivered on 23 February 1306 , the Dominican friar Giordano da Pisa ( ca . 1255 -- 1311 ) wrote `` It is not yet twenty years since there was found the art of making eyeglasses , which make for good vision ... And it is so short a time that this new art , never before extant , was discovered ... I saw the one who first discovered and practiced it , and I talked to him . '' </P>
<P> The first eyeglasses were made in Northern Italy , most likely in Pisa , by about 1290 : In a sermon delivered on 23 February 1306 , the Dominican friar Giordano da Pisa ( ca . 1255 -- 1311 ) wrote `` It is not yet twenty years since there was found the art of making eyeglasses , which make for good vision ... And it is so short a time that this new art , never before extant , was discovered ... I saw the one who first discovered and practiced it , and I talked to him . '' </P>
when was the first pair of glasses made
when was the first pair of glasses made
about 1290
about 1290