
History of Ophthalmology
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-7923-0273-5 (ISBN)
Description
Biographies of famous ophthalmologists and visual scientists.- Quantitative visual psychophysics during the period of European enlightenment. The studies of the astronomer and mathematician Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) on visual acuity and colour perception.- Chevalier Taylor - Ophthalmiater Royal (1703-1772).- Santiago Ramón Y Cajal, the retina and the neuron theory.- On the 700th anniversary of the death of Ibn an-Nafis (b. ca. 1210, d. 1288).- History of institutions and disciplines.- The treatment of eye diseases in the Asclepieia.- Public health and research in the development of Russian ophthalmology.- The founding of the First University Eye Clinic in Vienna.- The Lisbon Institute of Ophthalmology - Instituto de Oftalmologia Dr. Gama Pinto - its founding and history.- Famous case histories.- Field Marshall Radetzky's orbital abscess.- The history of the ophthalmoscope.
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Edition
Reprinted from DOCUMENTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, 71:2, 1989
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
39 s/w Abbildungen
136 p. 39 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-0273-5 (9780792302735)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-2387-4
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History of Ophthalmology
Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis
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Content
Biographies of famous ophthalmologists and visual scientists.- Quantitative visual psychophysics during the period of European enlightenment. The studies of the astronomer and mathematician Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) on visual acuity and colour perception.- Chevalier Taylor - Ophthalmiater Royal (1703-1772).- Santiago Ramón Y Cajal, the retina and the neuron theory.- On the 700th anniversary of the death of Ibn an-Nafis (b. ca. 1210, d. 1288).- History of institutions and disciplines.- The treatment of eye diseases in the Asclepieia.- Public health and research in the development of Russian ophthalmology.- The founding of the First University Eye Clinic in Vienna.- The Lisbon Institute of Ophthalmology - Instituto de Oftalmologia Dr. Gama Pinto - its founding and history.- Famous case histories.- Field Marshall Radetzky's orbital abscess.- The history of the ophthalmoscope.