title: On the invention of the ophthalmoscope.
abstract: The author offers an English translation of three passages of Purkinje's Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus (1823). He shows that Purkinje made three inventions: (1) by using a transparent mirror, (2) by anticipating Maxwellian illumination, and (3) by providing the first recorded ophthalmic examination of animal and human eyes.
authors.affiliation: Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weale
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history; D019721:Ophthalmoscopes; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy / Q000266:history*