You’ll see “see” in PIE as “okw-”; spelt in common roots as “ops-“, “op-“ and, as “oc-”. So near- and far-sightedness are respectively myopia, and hypermetropia (“hyper” means more or metaphorically, far).
If you want something to be made so clear to you, that you can “see it for yourself”, you order its autopsy. If you want a cadaver examined, you then should have a necropsy (not biopsy). And if for some reason you have all of those tests done together, then it’ll do good to get together all the information, and make a synopsis.
Moving on, if you got beat by Nobody then you have one circular eye, and for some reason you embrace that and call yourself Cyclops (good on you). You ever have problems with it you can go to a regular eye doctor, or ophthalmologist (another word for eye), and he may well refer you to an optician for a monocle.
With that “ocl-“ we’ve stepped a bit into Latin. A two-lensed seeing device would then be a binocular (and since there has to be two such devices to make the one device you’re thinking of, they always come as a pair). When a lot of people have those devices, they make up a neighbourhood, or as Bentham called it, a panopticon (“pan-“ means “all” in Greek).
But that’s not all, something which looks really old is antique (“que-“ is a mutation of “okw-“ in modern English). And I think that emotion is really atypical of etymology because, if not judging things by taking a single look at them, what are you even learning here.
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