Didn't find much data. In all these centuries not much study has been made of it. The literature on myopigenesis suggests an active emmetropization mechanism regulated by optical defocus. The strongest evidence comes from compensatory ocular growth in response to lens-induced defocus in different species of animals. In summary, the present study failed to demonstrate any overall effects of spectacle intervention on the progression of human myopia.
Further investigation using a larger sample is warranted.
When I was in the 6th grade of elementary school, I wound up in a class taught by a little old lady school teacher who had a relatively small handwriting on the blackboard. Almost immediately, it turned out that two of my friends and I needed to be moved to the front of the class to be able to read her writing on the blackboard. Notes were sent to our parents about our vision problems and we were all separately taken by our loving parents to different doctors for our visual problems. This was supposed to improve his vision. It was also interesting that every time I needed new lenses, the optometrist couldn't use the old frames but needed to prescribe new frames, too.