In 1508 Da Vinci conceptualized the idea of changing light patterns. Over a century later Descartes described the neutralization of refractive light with a glass tube. Two centuries later we had our first glass scleral contact lens. In the late 1880s, three men independently invented the first contact lenses. They were Adolph Gaston Eugen Fick, a Swiss ophthalmologist, a French ophthalmologist Eugene Kalt who made his lenses from the bottom of glass test tubes, and August Muller, a German medical student who wanted to correct his own high myopia.
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