• 710 BC
• Nimrud lens
• The Nimrud lens – a piece of rock crystal – may have been used as a magnifying glass or as a burning-glass to start fires by concentrating sunlight.
• 1000 AD
• Reading stone
• The first vision aid, called a reading stone, is invented. It is a glass sphere placed on top of text, which it magnifies to aid readability.
• 1021 AD
• Book of Optics
• Muslim scholar Ibn al-Haytham writes hisBook of Optics. It eventually transforms how light and vision are understood.
• 1284 AD
• First eye glasses
• Salvino D’Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses.
• 1590 AD
• Early microscope
• Zacharias Janssen and his father Hans place multiple lenses in a tube. They observe that viewed objects in front of
Special writing aids help visually impaired people write in straight lines, while Braille and large-print and audio-cassette books help them read and write.
High-index lenses are made from a substance that refracts more light than traditional lenses. This makes the lenses thinner and lighter.
If light is shone at various mediums with varying densities then the light will bend more with different speeds, wavelength and angles. Learning about bending light is important because when the aliens invade our planet earth they will bring, as NASA predicted, tons and tons of light based weapons. In order to stop the aliens you need to know how to bend the deadly light away from our planet for it to be saved. A computer was used to simulate light being shone through water, air, glass and prisms.
The Picosure Focus Lens Array is a laser treatment that utilizes the power of the world’s most advanced laser, the Pico Laser, to revive skin, improve acne scars, and smooth out wrinkles.
Before selecting a riflescope you must have it clear in your mind what the main purpose of the scope is. Many people own more than one scope to handle the various uses to which their rifle may be put. For example, you would not necessarily use the same riflescope for target shooting as you would hunting moving big game.
The most insignificant ordinary object is a pair of glasses. Each and every pair is different and specific to a certain person. If one was to take their glasses and give them back to the doctor, he could not do anything with them, he could not resell them or give them to another, because they were made specifically for the one who gave them back to the doctor. A pair of glasses helps a person see the world clearer. A person with myopia cannot see objects that are far away, a person with hyperopia cannot focus on objects that are closer, but can see objects that are far away. For students, poor vision can reduce their attention span, and make it difficult to understand the
Individualized Diagnoses – In order to start making lenses that more accurately targeted the specific needs of patients, a doctor in the Netherlands decided to create a chart to diagnose vision problems. This doctor, Franciscus Donders, collaborated with Herman Snellen, the person who invented what is now known as the Snellen Eye Chart.
As vital organ of vision, the eye, allows us to learn more about the world around us more than any other organ or senses. Sight, the physical sensory experience and vision, the metaphysical concept of how our brain interprets images both work harmoniously and play a huge role in our everyday lives. However, almost a billion people are either blind or visually impaired simply due to not having a pair of glasses. Being able to lead people in the direction of good vision is what developed my interests.
Influence of Al Haitham's ideas has changed the concept of scientists. Scientists understand that we can see the external light coming in our eyes. If we look back on the eyes and look back on the object, we can only see it, but the distant hills or the sky are not easy to see. Then if the light is reflected from the outside, then our inner light or the light of the light will not be needed
Imagine what life would be like without the exposure to sharp or clear images. It is probably unfathomable as we take this for granted. Bifocals are almost invisible to people’s minds, as it is readily accept that this invention has assisted vision. However, people seldom consider that bifocals enable them to read or see the beauties of Allah.
Now, we’ll talk about light which is not less interesting than sound. Ancient Greeks tried to understand the meaning of light. Pythagoras proposed that vision resulted from light rays emerging from a person's eye and striking an object. Epicurus argued the opposite: Objects produce light rays, which then travel to the eye. Other Greek philosophers like Euclid and Ptolemy used ray diagrams quite successfully to show how light bounces off a smooth surface or bends as it passes from one transparent medium to another. Newton proposed light as corpuscles, or particles. After all, light travels in straight lines and bounces off a mirror much like a ball bouncing off a wall. No one had actually seen particles of light, but even now, it's easy to explain why that might be. The particles could be too small, or moving too fast, to be seen, or perhaps our eyes see right through them. Light as ray, imagining light as a ray makes it easy to describe, with great accuracy, three well-known phenomena: reflection, refraction and scattering. I will explain each one briefly. Reflection is when a light ray strikes a smooth surface, such as a mirror, and bounces off. Scattering for example is when a light hits paper; the waves are reflected in all directions. Refraction occurs when a ray of light passes from one transparent medium (air, let's say) to a second transparent
As for me, reading wasn’t an effortless task. Reading and writing had become something I loved to do, that was until skipping lines and rereading previous lines kept happening more frequently. Vision therapy became the usual routine, making my eyes pair together, allowing me to comprehend what I was reading.
This weeks reading had to do with the medieval understanding and importance of vision. It all seems to begin with having something extra along with normal vision. It seems like seeing and interpreting in real time was just as important as having a second vision and seeing below all that. The second vision had more to do with seeing what was usually hidden to the human eye, but very clear to the divine. Since this second vision is something rare artist began to try incorporate these visions into their art. This interest in vision continued until point that people started to analyze the eye and how light was interpreted in eye and went into the brain. Artist also caught on to this idea of lights going into the eye to create vision and they eventually
Hinshelwood (1917) – First physician to advocate specific instructional approach for written language disorder called “word blindness”
In 1960 a breakthrough came forth. The invention of the laser had pure and intense light that was well suited for the making of holograms. Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks