Postage stamp portraying Franz Cornelius Donders
 Catalogue Number: 2414 Postage stamp portraying Franz Cornelius Donders Category: Painting or other art work Sub-Category: Philatelic item Government body: Netherlands Government Postal Service Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1935 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Netherlands Description Of Item: Unused postage stamp, 45 x 35 mm, green, portraying Franz Cornelius Donders, denomination 6 centimes. Historical Significance: Donders wrote the foundation book for optometry 'On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye with a preliminary essay on physiological optics' in 1864. Donders (1818 - 1889) was Professor of Physiology and Ophthalmology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Cat Nos 56, 57, 68 and 78 are works by Donders held in by the Kett Optometry Museum. How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Optometry Museum Date Acquired: April 2014 Condition: Fine unused |