Spectacle Lenses
Theory and Practice

Colin Fowler (Author), Keziah Latham Petre (Author)

9780750623704

Hardback, published 20 March 2001

160 pages
27 x 18 x 1.2 cm, 0.34 kg

"I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all students of optometry and ophthalmic dispensing and to practitioners in the dispensing or manufacture of ophthalmic lenses." Andrew Kierl, Senior Lecturer Anglia Polytechnic University

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 fundamental aspects of spectacle lens dispensing with relevance to areas such as visual optics and geometric optics.

Introduction
Basic optical principles
Spherical lens forms
Astigmatic lens forms
Prisms and prismatic effects
Spectacle lens materials and lens manufacture
Measurement of lens power
Len aberrations, best form and aspheric lenses
Bifocal and trifocal lenses
Varifocal spectacle lenses
Tinted and treated lenses.

Subject Areas: Optometry / opticians [MQR]