Comprehensive manual describing the structure and function of the eye, ocular disorders and their treatment. Includes discussion on different disorders, eye diseases of famous historical people, perception differences between men and women and future technologies.

Section 1: Descriptive

1. Famous Ophthalmologists
2. Anatomy of the Human Eye
3. Accommodation
4. Daltonism Color Blindness
5. How We See?
6. Animal Eyes: The Evolution of the Eye

Section 2: The History

1. Nature of Light
2. Anatomy and Function of the Eye
3. Anatomy of the Central Visual System
4. The Collyria Eye Drops
5. Ophthalmoviscosurgical Devices: From Simple Liquids to Surgical Instruments
6. Invention of Spectacles
7. Visual Aids—From Reading Stones, Glasses, Contact Lenses, Intraocular Lenses, and Ophthalmic Lasers
8. Contact Lenses
9. Glass-spectacles—Spectacle Optics

Section 3: Biometry of the Eye

1. Growth of the Eye
2. Refractive Errors

Section 4: Varied Eyes

1. Do Women See Differently from Men?
2. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
3. Windows on the World: The Powerful Symbolism of Light

Section 5: Blindness

1. Blindness—The Problem in Ancient and Modern Times

Section 6: The Art of Painting and the Eye

1. The Artist and the Eye
2. The Influence of Eye Diseases on the Works of Painters
3. Ametropia and Painting
4. Accommodation and Painting
5. William Turner
6. Claude Monet

Section 7: Eye Diseases

1. Famous Historical Persons
2. Bach: When the Angels Play for God, They Play Bach
3. Gustav Adolf
4. Saint Odilia
5. Saint Lucia and Other Patron Saints of the Blind
6. The Eye of the Sovereign
7. Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Myopia of the Rulers of Nations  

Section 8: Major Important Steps by a Single Person in the Improvement of the Function of the Eye

1. Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham: Madman or Brilliant Physicist?
2. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
3. Louis Braille
4. John Dalton
5. Otto Wichterle
6. Gerhard Meyer Schwickerath and His Story of the “Trapped Sun” S

Section 9: Eye Surgery

1. Cataract
2. Corneal Surgery
3. Refractive Surgery              
4. Posterior Eye Segment Surgery Vitreous Retinal Surgery

Section 10: The Future

1. The Bionic Eye, Where are the Limits?
2. The Future of Nanotechnology in Ophthalmology
3. Gene Therapy in Ophthalmology
4. Future Trends of Anterior Eye Segment Surgery
5. Future Trends of Posterior Eye Segment Surgery