Life-giving light
 Catalogue Number: 1030 Life-giving light Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: SHEARD Charles Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1933 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Baltimore Publisher/Manufacturer: Williams and Wilkins Company Description Of Item: Original green decorated cloth cover, 174 pages and 5 unnumbered pages, frontispiece and 24 illustrations. Presentation bookplate for Mrs Padman to VCO, Historical Significance: Charles Sheard is one of the great figures in optometry. He is known for Sheard's criterion for evaluating accommodative convergence relationships and for establishing the first 4 year optometry course at Ohio State University (OSU). He published 9 books and > 65 papers on optometry clinical subjects. He was a physicist, not an optometrist, having obtained his PhD at Princeton University. He went to OSU as an instructor in 1907 and became Professor of Applied Optics responsible for the 2 year optometry course. He argued successfully for the course to be 4 years in 1915. In 1919 went to the American Optical Company and later was Director of Biophysics at the Mayo Clinic from 1924 to1949. See J Opt Soc Amer 1958; 48: 205-6 for a biography. How Acquired: Donated by Mrs M Padman, widow of Launceston optometrist Eric Padman Condition: Good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |