Illuminating Engineering Society, Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain) · [London] · leaf 282
lighting knownthen or since — for all our approv^edmodern practice of indoor lightingderives from this. The thing is now,of course, past praying for. but I forone am old-fashioned enough to holdthe opinion that for prolonged readingin the seclusion of a library or in thestudy the mellow light of a… … to it by persons of taste. Yet as allthings are relative, no doubt the sparseemployment even of such units, notwell placed for the avoidance of glare,was irritating to eyes accustomed tothe soft illumination of well-shadedoil lamps. In fact, the use of shadeswas far more general with the…
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