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In the following chapter, I will summarise some useful information about the types and properties of ophthalmic lenses. Furthermore, I will introduce the concept of sphero-cylindrical and prismatic lenses.
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The Abbe number is named after the physicist Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905).
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Schmidtmann, G. (2020). Ophthalmic Lenses. In: Clinical Vision Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35340-7_4
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