And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, January 18th, 1908, 107 years ago today . . . the day the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen died at the age of 73. You may not recognize his name, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. That familiar eyesight chart revolutionized vision testing, and we went to ridiculous lengths to test it out That ...

My graphic design students love to design posters using the classic eye chart composition, and they frequently ask “What typeface should I use for this?” Not having a definitive answer has always been ...

The Jaeger chart was designed to test near vision acuity. Eduard Jaeger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and a professor at the University of Vienna who, in the 1850s, made ...

The aim of the study was to compare the performance of two different COMPlog computerised, single letter scoring, visual acuity (VA) measurements against gold standard Early Treatment Diabetic ...