Wade N J
Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, UK.
Perception. 1998;27(6):637-70. doi: 10.1068/p270637.
Light and sight were not distinguished from one another until the dioptrics and the anatomy of the eye had been adequately described in the seventeenth century. A survey of early theories of light is presented, together with descriptions of developing knowledge of ocular anatomy. Once the analogy between the eye and a camera had been made, the problem of accommodation was exposed, and corrections for errors of refraction could be given theoretical support. Theories of accommodation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are briefly reviewed, as is the early history of eye glasses.
直到17世纪对屈光学和眼睛解剖学有了充分描述之后，光与视觉才得以区分开来。本文介绍了早期的光理论，并描述了眼部解剖学知识的发展。一旦将眼睛与相机进行类比，调节问题就暴露出来了，对屈光不正的矫正也能获得理论支持。本文简要回顾了17和18世纪的调节理论以及眼镜的早期历史。
