title: Five eighteenth and nineteenth century books significant in vision science selected from the collection of the Lilly Library at Indiana University.
abstract: This paper discusses five eighteenth and nineteenth century books selected from the collection of the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The five were selected because they all contained at least some material of significance in clinical vision science (some contained a broad range of scientific topics) and they were all important publications in their time. The authors of the books, in alphabetical order, were Frans Cornelis Donders, Joseph Priestley, William Charles Wells, Charles Wheatstone, and Thomas Young.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. dgoss@indiana.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Goss
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D007196:Indiana; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D014495:Universities; D015348:Vision, Binocular