Principles and practices of refraction: an elementary treatise on the science of refraction as applied to 'sight testing' including essays on retinoscopy, etc
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Catalogue Number: 1361
Principles and practices of refraction: an elementary treatise on the science of refraction as applied to 'sight testing' including essays on retinoscopy, etc
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection)
Author: AMSDEN Lionel G
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1903
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Toronto, Canada
Publisher/Manufacturer: The Canadian Optician
Description Of Item: Original navy blue cloth covers, 224 pages including index and glossary, 67 engraved figures. No contents page. Signature of previous owner F W Smith with date 1908 on front fly leaf with address 24 Adelaide Street W Toronto. The book is dedicated by the author to the students of the Canadian Ophthalmic College. The Chapters are headed as 'Lecture 1' etc except this does not extend to the latter chapters
Historical Significance: Lionel Amsden is described as the principal of the Canadian Ophthalmic College.In his preface the authors says that nothing in this book is original with regard to theory or practice and that other books of the same kind have preceded it, but that those preceding books have been written by medical practitioners and 'are naturally too technical to be easy of understanding by the ordinary optical student'. The book is an early example of a text book on optometry written by an optometrist and the only one in this collection writen by a Canadian. It was presumably used as a text book in the Canadian Ophthalmic College in the early years of the 20thC. It does not seem to have had later editions
Condition: Good. Staining of front fly leaf, title and preface pages
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note
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