The Eye (Volumes 1 to 4)
 Catalogue Number: 3524 The Eye (Volumes 1 to 4) Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Editor: DAVSON Hugh Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1962 and 1969 Edition: Vol 1 2nd edition, Vols 2 - 4 1st Edition Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London, UK Publisher/Manufacturer: Academic Press (London) Ltd Description Of Item: Volume 1 Vegetative physiology and biochemistry, 2nd edition 1969, green cloth cover, 235 x 160 mm, green and white dust wrapper, 679 pages, black and white illustrations throughout text.Volume 2 The visual process (in 2 parts), 1st edition 1962, navy blue cloth cover, 235 x 160 mm, 796 pages, black and white illustrations throughout text.Volume 3 Muscular mechanisms (in three parts), 1st edition 1962, (second printing 1966), blue cloth cover, 235 x 169 mm, dust cover, 323 pages, black and white illustrations throughout text.Volume 4 Visual optics and optical space sense (in two parts), 1st edition 1962, blue cloth cover, 235 x 160 mm, 432 pages. black and white illustrations throughout text. Historical Significance: This was a most important book in that it assembled current knowledge of the eye and visual function in a series of volumes within which chapters were written by the leading vision researchers of the mid 20th C. Its style was to report the experimental evidence rather than give an overview, text book style, of current viewpoints. It was long used in the optometry course at the University of Melbourne and very much influenced students attitudes of the day to evidence, its interpretation and its uncertainties. It remains a wonderful source book of vision research. It ultimately ran to five volumes of which four are in this set. The fifth was Volume 5 Comparative physiology 1974. Hugh Davson (1909- 1996) was a English physiologist who worked at University College London and wrote other text books on the eye (See Cat # 1431). The authors of the various parts were leading scientist of the day and include, MH Pirenne, HHC Marriott, R Granit, HJA Dartnell. M Alpern, AG Bennett, and KN Ogle. NOTE: THESE VOLUMES ARE TEMPORARILY IN THE ARCHIVE JOURNAL ROOM How Acquired: Donated by Colin Bates, honorary archivist Date Acquired: Aug 2017 Condition: Good, except for sellotape staining Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |