History of Ophthalmology: Sub Auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis

ISBN-13: 9780792331018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 116 str.

Harold E. Henkes; Harold E. Henkes

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This volume contains articles on the history of ophthalmology.

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Famous Personalities in Ophthalmology and Visual Science: Prominent Ophthalmologists who Suffered from Acute Glaucoma; F.C. Blodi. Vision and Cognition in the Natural Philosophy of Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus); P. Theiss, O.-J. Grusser. Further Studies by Christoph Scheiner Concerning the Optics of the Eye; F. Daxecker. History of Technical Inventions and Discoveries: On the Invention of the Ophthalmoscope; R. Weale. D.B. Kagenaar and the Ophthalmometer by Javal-Schiotz; I. Den Tonkelaer, G.K. van Leersum, H.E. Henkes. A Contribution to the History of Spectacles in Croatia; V. Dorn. Ophthalmology in Art and Literature: Pisarro, Diacryocystitis, and the Development of Modern Lacrimal Surgery; J.G. Ravin. Ophthalmology in Visual Science in Antiquity: Didymus the Blind: An Unknown Precursor of Louis Braille and Helen Keller; J. Lascaratos, S. Marketos. Further Ophthalmological Information on Byzantine Chroniclers and Historians; J. Fronimopolous, J. Lascaratos.