History of Ophthalmology

Chapter 1 Osler and ophthalmology

Chapter 2 Life, eye disease and work of Joseph Plateau

Chapter 3 The ophthalmology of Fabricius Hildanus in the 17th century

Chapter 4 Ophthalmological ideas of the Byzantine author Meletius

Chapter 5 Ophthalmology according to Aetius Amidenus

Chapter 6 Father Waclaw Szuniewicz, M.D., an ophthalmologist of unusual courage and devotion

Chapter 7 On the history of deformation phosphenes and the idea of internal light generated in the eye for the purpose of vision

Chapter 8 Antonie Cramer’s explanation of accommodation

Chapter 9 19th Century mechanical models of eye movements, Donders’ law, Listing’s law and Helmholtz’ direction circles

Chapter 10 Ocular manifestations during the French travels of discovery to Australia from Lapérouse (1741–1788) to Dumont D’Urville (1790–1842)

Chapter 11 The blind Belisar as beggar

Chapter 12 Eye references in the Homeric Epics

Chapter 13 Eye votives in the Asklepieion of ancient Corinth