Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to propose a contact lens system. In the sixteenth-century he described an optical method
for correcting poor vision. Da Vinci’s idea was to place the eye against a short, water-filled tube sealed at the end with a flat lens. In this process, the water came in contact with the eyeball and refracted light rays much the way a curved lens does. -paraphrased from Charles Panati’s History of Contact Lenses— Which sentence would MOST logically conclude this paragraph?
A) Many people wear contacts, thanks to Leonardo da Vinci.
B) Glass remained the standard material of hard lenses until 1936.
C) The first practical contact lenses were developed in 1877 by a Swiss physician, Dr. A. E. Fick.
D) Da Vinci’s use of water as the best surface to touch the eye is mirrored today in the high water content of soft contact lenses.
