Non-linear projection of the retinal image in a wide-angle schematic eye.

Abstract

The non-linear projection of the retinal image has significant implications in both clinical ophthalmology and physiological optics, and was therefore considered by several early investigators, whose work culminated in that of Stine (I934), who obtained quantitative results by calculation. In an unpublished study on the Hering Hillebrand Horopter Devi- ation, it became necessary to re-evaluate this property of the retinal image in the light of contemporary knowledge of ocular dimensions, and some information of a wider relevance has emerged.