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Ueber die Accommodation des Auges.

HELMHOLTZ, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821 – 1894) Wikipedia

v. Graefes Arch. Ophthal., 1, 2 Abt., 1-74. 1854 –1855.

Helmholtz determined the optical constants and explained the mechanism of accommodation, with the help of the ophthalmometer which he had invented in 1852.

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