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Transactions of an Optical Convention marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Examination in Visual Optics by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
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Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London EC4
November 1948
paper
overall: 210 mm x 133 mm

Published record and transactions of an Optical Convention marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Examination in Visual Optics by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. Small portrait format printed in black on 112 pages with soft end papers. Includes a brief historical note by Sir William Champness and papers on: the need for research, optical theory and ophthalmic lenses, nomography, binocular vision, applications of the slit lamp, routines and technique, causes of faulty refraction, physical interpretation of the spectral sensitivity curve of the eye. Illustrated with photographs of the event.


1998.421

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