Spectacle Lenses
Theory and Practice
- 1st Edition - March 20, 2001
- Authors: Colin Fowler, Keziah Latham Petre
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 2 3 7 0 - 4
This up-to-date text offers a practical approach to the theory and practice of how spectacle lenses are made and how they work in correcting vision. It also covers the more… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis up-to-date text offers a practical approach to the theory and practice of how spectacle lenses are made and how they work in correcting vision. It also covers the more fundamental aspects of spectacle lens dispensing with relevance to areas such as visual optics and geometric optics.
Undergraduate students and practitioners of optometry and dispensing
Introduction; Basic optical principles; Spherical lens forms; Astigmatic lens forms; Prisms and prismatic effects; Spectacle lens materials and lens manufacture; Measurement of lens power; Lens aberrations, best form and aspheric lenses; Bifocal and trifocal lenses; Varifocal spectacle lenses; Tinted and treated lenses.
- No. of pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 20, 2001
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780750623704
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Colin Fowler
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Optometry and Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UKKL
Keziah Latham Petre
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, Optometry and Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UKRead Spectacle Lenses on ScienceDirect