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5 entries match Ophthalmology & Vision [C11] · Chemistry & Biochemistry [K01.900.200]
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#10937
Opticae thesaurus: Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi; Eiusdem liber De Crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus. Edited by Friedrich Risner.
The Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age Alhazen made significant contributions to the principles of optics and the theory of visual perception in his Opticae thesaurus. Risner's edi…
1613
#13260
Opticorum libri sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles.
This work, beautifully printed by the Plantin-Moretus Press, includes an engraved title page and illustrations heading each chapter by Peter Paul Rubens. It contains one of the first studies of binocular vision. Digit…
1802
#1488
On the theory of light and colours.
Young, the “Father of physiological optics”, established the wave theory of light, explaining the phenomena of interference and dispersion.
1845
#1504
On the vision of objects on and in the eye.
An introduction to the then little-known subject of catoptrics.
1867
#1513
Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.
Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.