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Lecture Notes Ophthalmic Lenses
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
exercise book; student notes
Northampton Polytechnic
Europe: United Kingdom
1946-1947
paper
overall: 204 mm x 163 mm

Educational exercise book used by Denis White, part of an archive documenting his training as an ophthalmic optician. White paper, ruled in blue, with soft brown end papers, stapled. Handwritten contents, subject: Lecture Notes Ophthalmic Lenses. Includes some dated notes from 16 October 1946-5 March 1947. Topics include: reasons for wearing spectacles, spherical lenses, cylinders, toric forms, rules for transposing sph-cyl to toric form, curvature, Lens Measure readings, prisms, decentration, prism working, bifocals, lens systems, vergences of thick lenses, contact lenses.


2021.909

Gift of Mrs Elaine Hazell, in memory of Mr Denis White FSMC, 2020



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