A system of ocular skiametry : including such portions of optometry as are pertinent to the use of the "shadow test" with the plane mirror
 Catalogue Number: 174 A system of ocular skiametry : including such portions of optometry as are pertinent to the use of the "shadow test" with the plane mirror Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: CROSS, Andrew Jay Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1903 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: New York Publisher/Manufacturer: Frederick Boger Publishing Co Description Of Item: Original cloth cover, 183 pages, 94 illustrations. Old ownership stamp for Harold Ternes, a Melbourne optometrist, and a stamp of the Victorian College of Optometry. Historical Significance: A textbook written for optometrists. Skiametry is another name for retinoscopy, which was also known as skiascopy and the 'shadow test'. Cross had earlier presented views on practical skiascopy to a meeting of the Optical Society of the State of New York at Syracuse on June 2 1896, published New York 1896. There was also a self published book on dynamic skiametry, 'Dynamic skiametry in theory and practice, embracing its association with static skiametry and with those optometric methods wherein the correlation of accommodation and convergence must be considered' self published in 1911. How Acquired: Not known Condition: Very good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |