The stereoscope as an orthoptic instrument

Historical Significance: Dr Arthur Linkz MD (1900-1988) was a prominent academic ophthalmologist. Born in Galgoc, Hungary, educated German University of Prague and University of Kiel, he researched with von Tschermak in Germany. He fled Germany in 1938 because of the rise of the Nazis, returning to Budapest but emigrated to the USA a year later. He became a researcher in the Dartmouth Eye Institute, working with Paul Boeder and completed a thesis on the horopter. (See Cat No 462 and 509 for more information on the Dartmouth Eye Institute, and two of its other important researchers Ames and Ogle). He became Professor of Ophthalmology at the New York University and is best remembered for his rambling idiosyncratic books, notably 'The Physiology of the eye' 1950-1952 but he also wrote 'On writing, reading, and dyslexia'. 1972 'An essay on color vision and clinical color-vision tests.'1964, 'Pleoptics.' 1961 and ' An ophthalmologist looks at art' 1980. (See Cat 873 held in the Nathan Library in the Hewett collection)