内容

目次

Part 1 Introduction to the optics of vision: a functional approach tocomparative vertebrate and invertebrate optics, Hughes; optics of thehuman eye, Charman. Part 2 Ocular ametropia and its correction:refractive error in relation to the development of the eye, Young;possible causes of abrupt changes in refraction; paraxial optics ofocular correction, Long; correction by spectacle lenses, Fowler;contact lens corrections, Efron; intra-ocular implants, Ridgway;surgical techniques for refractive correction, Halliday; binocularvision through correcting lenses, Jennings; optical aids for lowvision, Dickinson. Part 3 Other aspects of visual optics: accommodationand its anomalies, Ciuffreda; retinal fibre optics, Enoch andLakshminarayanan; polarised light and the eye, Bour; binocular visionin relation to stereoscopic instruments, Charman and Jennings; entopticphenomena, Palmer. Part 4 Instrumentation for determining the opticalparameters and refraction of the eye and of correcting lenses:non-optical techniques for visualising the eye; optical methods formeasurement of ocular parameters, Henson; determination of ocularrefraction, Howland; instrumentation for verification of spectacle andcontact lens parameters, Loran.