Clinical Visual Optics - Hardcover

Bennett, Arthur G.; Rabbetts, Ronald B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0407014071 ISBN 13: 9780407014077

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to provide an up-to-date text on ocular dioptrics, the various subjective and objective techniques of refraction, and the optical instruments used in the examination of the eye. Other topics include the side-effects of spectacle and contact-lens corrections and the aberrations of the eye. While the majority of readers will be students of optometry, ophthalmology and ophthalmic dispensing, it is hoped that this book will also serve as a reference work for those already in practice, in addition to optical designers, physicists, psychologists and others engaged in visual science.

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"All students in this field should seriously consider purchasinf this most basic of texts."
Optician, February 2008
"It will be the standard text on visual optics"The Dispensing Optician
student days to when experienced practitioners need to grapple with recent advances in eye examination techniques, sound knowledge of visual optics is essential. Optometric expertise greatly depends on the subjects covered in this book. The weaker types of optometric education give insufficient emphasis to theoretical instruction, practical experiments and rigorous solving of problems in this field of study.
It was the earlier textbook by Emsley which laid a remarkably sound foundation of exercises in this area, which cannot be neglected. The late Arthur Bennett extended this approach to good effect. Expounded by Ronald Rabbetts, who worked closely with Arthur Bennett, the third edition continues an impressive tradition of accurately applied expertise seen at its very best. Many of the main benefits of the present form of this book stem from the manner in which wise principles are applied to clinical realities.
Reorganization of the format has resulted in fewer pages yet more material. As before, the introductory sections give concise and relevant details of vision, basic optical principles, definitions, standards, ocular image formations and pertinent exercises. Such condensed material is valuable for those beginning a study of the subject, as well as for those needing to return to 'first principles' after becoming rather rusty.
Among the careful arrangement of material on form vision and the responses to contrast, attention is paid to amblyopia, instrumental aids and ISO standards. Assorted ametropias and near vision features follow, including refractive correction. This material is paramount among those books devoted to the subjects involved.
Normal and abnormal binocular functions are carefully introduced, using both exercises and refere

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0407014071
• ISBN 13: 9780407014077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 487