Will We Ever Master the Art of Making Ideal Seeing Conditions?

Abstract

During the whole of the industrial era between 1840 and 1940, every worker in industry, in the crafts or in offices did his work under lighting conditions that would now be considered completely insufficient, especially under artificial light. But there were hardly ever serious complaints, because there were almost no possibilities for improving the conditions; and we believe that, in general, not very much harm was done to the health of the workers.

“Indeed his (Land’s) works serve to remind us of the dangers of losing phenomena through simplifying situations in order to get neat experiments”.

R. L. Gregory — Eye and Brain