Refraction and accommodation of the eye
 Catalogue Number: 277 Refraction and accommodation of the eye Category: Book Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection) Author: Edmonde LANDOLT Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1886 Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Edinburgh Publisher/Manufacturer: Young J Pentland Description Of Item: 600 pages plus adverts, 147 illustrations. There is an early bookplate on front page pastedown for Gatewood C Davis. Translated from French to English by G M Culver Historical Significance: Edmond(e) Landolt 1846-1926 was the Swiss ophthalmologist who devised the Landolt ring and published a multi-volume treatise on ophthalmology. He worked with Helmholtz, von Graefe, Snellen and Donders. His obituary in Brit J Ophthal1926; 10: 463 says he will go down in history as the pioneer of the study of the action of eye muscles and their disorders and treatment. He delivered the Bowman lecture in 1911 and re-founded Arch d'Ophtalmol but the obit makes no mention of famous Landolt ring, which he invented in 1888.A second copy, Cat. No. 4344, is held in Books of Historical Note How Acquired: Donated by Mrs M Padman, widow of Eric Padman, sometime National OAA President Date Acquired: 28/09/1985 Condition: Very good Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection |