Spectacle Makers discuss Leonardo influence

Delegates from four livery companies recently attended a lecture on Leonardo and Time given by Professor Martin Kemp (left), emeritus professor of the History of Art at Oxford University.

For several years the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, the Clockmakers, the Scientific Instrument Makers and the Lightmongers have worked together to arrange ‘distinguished speakers’ to talk on a subject of mutual interest.

Master of the WCSM Gordon Jones (right), the first master in the 384 year history of the company to come from contact lens manufacturing, highlighted Leonardo’s significance to the WCSM to Clockmakers Professor Paul Jarrett (centre) and Professor Kemp, showing his contact lens design being used on the old BCLA logo.