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Focusing by shape change in the lens of the eye: a commentary on Young (1801) ‘On the mechanism of the eye’

In his Bakerian Lecture paper of 1801, Thomas Young provided the best account up to that time of the eye's optical system, including refraction by the cornea and the surfaces of the lens. He built a device, an optometer, for determining the eye's state of focus, making it possible to presc...

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Autor principal: Land, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0308