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AIRY, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)

AIRY, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)

1801 – 1892

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1827 CE

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On a peculiar defect in the eye, and a mode of correcting it.

AIRY, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)
AIRY, Sir George Biddell (1801 – 1892)

Airy, Britain's Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, was the first to devise a sphereocylindrical lens for correcting astigmatism, a condition from which he himself suffered in his left eye. Airy's method is still used…