Abstract
PROF. SUTER gives a simple and yet clear account of the science of optics, as applied to the most important problems connected with ophthalmology. The study of the eye as an optical system has many points of interest, both for the physicist and for the medical student. In many works on optics only scant consideration is given to this part of the subject, so that the book before us may be said to fill a recognised gap in scientific literature. Its value would have been greatly enhanced, however, if measurements in connection with the various optical constants of the eye had been considered in greater detail. Mr. Shelford Bidwell's researches on the formation of multiple images in certain circumstances, due to the cellular structure of the eye, might have been mentioned with advantage; but it is, perhaps, hardly fair to criticise a book of the dimensions of the one before us for errors of omission. A serviceable index has been provided.
Handbook of Optics for Students of Ophthalmology.
By Prof. William Norwood Suter Pp. viii + 209. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.)
Optics: A Manual for Students.
By A. S. Percival Pp. x + 399. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.)
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E., E. Handbook of Optics for Students of Ophthalmology Optics: A Manual for Students . Nature 61, 149–150 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061149c0
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