Ulteriori informazioni
The history of stereoscopy.- Helmholtz, the first reformer of ophthalmology.- Christoph Scheiner's eye studies.- Jules Janssen (1824-1907): From ophthalmology to astronomy.- John Cunningham Saunders (1773-1810): His contribution to the surgery of congenital cataracts.- Thomas Hall Shastid (1866-1947): America's forgotten historian of ophthalmology.- William R. Wilde (1815-1876) in Vienna.- Noelle Chome-Bercioux (1898-1990), Jules Gonin's public relations' officer.- Professor Gama Pinto and the beginning of Portuguese ophthalmology.- The first Danish Chairs of Ophthalmology.- Ophthalmology in Europe in the days of the French Revolution.- The present status of the Hirschberg Library.- A case of eye disease (Lippitudo) on the Roman frontier in Britain.- Some Byzantine chroniclers and historians on ophthalmological topics.- The penalty of blinding during Byzantine times.- Miraculous ophthalmological therapies in Byzantium.- The development of ophthalmology in the former German Democratic Republic after 1945.
Sommario
The history of stereoscopy.- Helmholtz, the first reformer of ophthalmology.- Christoph Scheiner's eye studies.- Jules Janssen (1824-1907): From ophthalmology to astronomy.- John Cunningham Saunders (1773-1810): His contribution to the surgery of congenital cataracts.- Thomas Hall Shastid (1866-1947): America's forgotten historian of ophthalmology.- William R. Wilde (1815-1876) in Vienna.- Noelle Chome-Bercioux (1898-1990), Jules Gonin's public relations' officer.- Professor Gama Pinto and the beginning of Portuguese ophthalmology.- The first Danish Chairs of Ophthalmology.- Ophthalmology in Europe in the days of the French Revolution.- The present status of the Hirschberg Library.- A case of eye disease (Lippitudo) on the Roman frontier in Britain.- Some Byzantine chroniclers and historians on ophthalmological topics.- The penalty of blinding during Byzantine times.- Miraculous ophthalmological therapies in Byzantium.- The development of ophthalmology in the former German Democratic Republic after 1945.
Riassunto
Divided into five sections, this book considers the history of ideas in ophthalmology and visual sciences; biographies of researchers in ophthalmology; the history of academic institutions involved in ophthalmology; ophthalmology in antiquity; and oral history in ophthalmology.
