Dear Hoover
I sent you a message about a week ago asking if I could put a notice
on CVnet about a new book a colleague and I have just published
through Cambridge University Press. You replied that it would be OK
but I would have to become a member. I would be happy to do that. Here
are my details,
George Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Optometry and Vision
Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
e-mail: g.smith@optometry.unimelb.edu.au
telephone: +61+3+93497407: fax: +61+3+9349 7498
Do you need anymore information
Here is the information about the book
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A new book on optics has just been published by Cambridge
University Press. It is entitled The Eye and Visual Optical
Instruments and has been written by George Smith from the University
of Melbourne and David Atchison from the Queensland University of
Technolgy, Australia.
As the title suggests,the emphasis of the book is on visual optical
instruments. It includes conventional instruments such as as simple
magnifiers, microscopes and telescopes,and even old and now rarely
used instruments such as the sextant. It also includes much more
recent instruments such as interferometers used to project
interference fringes into the eye and diffractive devices such as
laser speckle optometers. Much of the book is dedicated to basic
optics, such as paraxial theory, image formation, diffraction,
aberration and image quality theory, without which it would be
impossible to properly describe the operation of these instruments.
The book also includes two chapters on visual ergonomics, which is the
interaction and interfacing of the eye with the instruments.
This book was written with a number of professions in mind, for
example ophthalmologists, optometrists, vision scientists, optical
engineers and anyone who uses visual optical instruments on a regular
basis, such as microscopists and metrologists.
Further details and ordering information is on the web at
www.cup.cam.ac.uk or www.cup.org.
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Regards, George Smith