A 16 volume thematic encyclopedia on vision covering all research aspects of this mutidisciplinary field by 300 contributors from around the world. Each volume is extensively referenced, illustrated and indexed. The articles relate the current state of our knowledge and areas of continuing advancement and will be updated in additional volumes every 5 years. It is aimed at libraries in all universities, relevant departments and other insditutions conducting research into vision, medical schools and relevant major industrial concerns such as pharmaceutical, optics and robotics companies.
Part 1 Introduction to the optics of vision: a functional approach to
comparative vertebrate and invertebrate optics, Hughes; optics of the human
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 of ocular correction, Long; correction
by spectacle lenses, Fowler; contact lens corrections, Efron; intra-ocular
implants, Ridgway; surgical techniques for refractive correction, Halliday;
binocular vision through correcting lenses, Jennings; optical aids for low
vision, Dickinson. Part 3 Other aspects of visual optics: accommodation and
its anomalies, Ciuffreda; retinal fibre optics, Enoch and Lakshminarayanan;
polarised light and the eye, Bour; binocular vision in relation to
stereoscopic instruments, Charman and Jennings; entoptic phenomena, Palmer.
Part 4 Instrumentation for determining the optical parameters and refraction
of the eye and of correcting lenses: non-optical techniques for visualising
the eye; optical methods for measurement of ocular parameters, Henson;
determination of ocular refraction, Howland; instrumentation for verification
of spectacle and contact lens parameters, Loran.
