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Jena : Literis Gollnerianis, 1707, Kl.-4°, (2), 64 pp., mit 1 Kupfertafel, feiner Pappband im Stil d. Zeit. Rare - Second Edition of the first monograph on refractive errors ! "Physiology in general and physiologic optics in specific made great progress during the 18th century. These advances were at first made not by practicing… ophthalmologists but the mathematicians and physicists. This situation is, therefore , similar to that of the 17th century when progress was achieved by Kepler, Scheiner, Kircher, Mariotte, Hooke, Rohault, Deschales, Huygens and others. The mathematician Georg Albrecht Hamberger (1662-1716) was the author of a most curios monograph which was printed toward of the end of the 17th century. Modern historian did not know about it and it is not mentioned by A. Hirsch, not by Helmholtz in the second edition of his Physiological Optik. It is difficult to determine how much this book influenced the thought progress of the 18th century. It is only mentioned in the review of the literature by Julius Beer in his first 'Augenheilkunde' of 1792 and Haller quotes it in his 'Elementa physiologiae humani' ." The book is called: Optica oculorum vitia sub praesidio Geogrii Alberti Hambergeri, . This is the first monograph on refractive errors, - the root so to speak from which 170 years later the classical book by Donders evolved; the monograph is for its time extraordinarily clear, strictly mathematical and physical, written in an entirely different spirit from the scholastic descriptions of the fourth book by Plempius "Opthalmographia" (1632) and also far superior to the corresponding remarks in Boerhaave's lectures on ophtahlmology (1708, printed in 1746 to 1771). These two publications are usually regarded as the beginning of physiologic optics. . (Also) Modern ocular hygiene was created by Professor Hamberger in Jena in 1696 . Only the reform of ophthalmology during the middle of the 19th century which was based on the ophthalmoscope and the correct recognition of refraction changed the situation." Hirschberg/Blodi IV, pp.284-291 "Es ist dies die erste Sonderschrift über die Fehler der Einstellung des Auges . für die damalige Zeit außerordentlich klar, streng mathematisch-physikalisch . geschrieben . Die Hygiene des Auges . ist in den zahllosen Schriften über diesen Gegenstand, die um die Wende des 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert . erschienen sind, nur wenig verbessert und erweitert worden " Hirschberg.
