Abstract
THE eye can be regarded as holding a unique position among the organs of special sensation, because of all methods of observation, those carried out by vision, either unaided or through the medium of suitable accessory apparatus (e.g. the photographic plate), are the most accurate, rapid, and susceptible of the widest application. Moreover, the problems which the eye presents for solution are of interest, not only to the physiologist and anatomist, but also to the oculist, physicist, psychologist, and the illuminating engineer, and much has therefore been written by them in their own respective spheres. So plentiful, in fact, has the literature of vision become, that a complete mastery of the subject is possible to few. Dr. Troland has therefore achieved a result of great value in the publication of the book before us.
The Present Status of Visual Science.
By Dr. Leonard Thompson Troland. Pp. 120. (Bulletin of the National Research Council. Vol. 5, Part 2, No. 27.) (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1922.) 1.50 dollars.
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HARTRIDGE, H. The Present Status of Visual Science. Nature 112, 532–533 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112532a0
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