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On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye… Translated from the author’s manuscript by W.D. Moore.

London: New Sydenham Society, 1864.

Donders’s greatest work, the basis for all succeeding studies of the subject, and a classic of physiological optics. It contains Donders’s explanation of astigmatism, his definition of aphakia and hypermetropia, his sharp distinctions between myopia and hypermetropia, etc. This English translation from the Dutch is the first published edition.

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Publication place: London