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Life, eye disease and work of Joseph Plateau
1Dept of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Documenta Ophthalmologica. Advances in Ophthalmology
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
The Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau (1801-1883) suffered from uveitis which made him blind at the age of 42 years and which has been ascribed to a previous solar retinitis. Plateau described many visual phenomena, including the persistence of visual impressions. He invented instruments which foreshadowed the cinema.