Almanac: The eye chart 01:48. And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, January 18th, 1908, 107 years ago today . . . the day the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen died at the age of 73.

That’s the idea behind [Joel, Margot, and Yuchen]’s final project for [Bruce Land]’s ECE 4760—simulating the standard Snellen eye chart that tests visual acuity from an actual or simulated ...

The most important part of testing any organ, is the test of how well the organ works. So, when it comes to the eye, we need to assess how well the eye sees. This function is known as the visual ...

In most modern Snellen Eye Charts, the middle bar is shorter. Vision specialists today use a version of the Snellen Eye Chart with 11 lines of letters. People are also reading… ...

That’s the idea behind [Joel, Margot, and Yuchen]’s final project for [Bruce Land]’s ECE 4760—simulating the standard Snellen eye chart that tests visual acuity from an actual or simulated ...

The traditional shrinking letters of the Snellen chart have been replaced with silhouettes of shrinking modern chair designs such as the Eames’s Molded Plywood chair, Arne Jacobsen’s Egg Chair ...

How well we see is central to our observations. And sometimes, normal (20/20) vision isn’t quite enough. If we can read the eighth line of the Snellen eye chart, the examiner will say that our ...

Eye doctor Herman Snellen (Dutch, 1834–1908) developed the most commonly used eye chart in the 1860s. The now iconic Snellen chart contains 11 rows of capital letters decreasing in size as the eye ...