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...that contact glasses must be fitted only by highly experienced ophthalmologists, for the danger of an ill-trained man injuring his patient's eyes is great. For fitting such glasses 39 lenses are necessary. The only firm which grinds these highly exact lenses is the Zeiss Works at Jena. The lenses must be curved on their inner (concave) side almost but not exactly to match the curve of the eyeballs. Nor may their optical curve be exactly that of ordinary eyeglasses. Contact lenses are held against the eyeballs by the capillary suction of tear water. Thin though the layer...
Died. Professor Allvar Gullstrand, 68, famed Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prizeman for Medicine in 1911, holder of degrees from the Universities of Upsala, Jena, Dublin; in Stockholm...
...idea for an instrument which would dramatize astronomy, make it accessible to lay people, belongs to Professor Max Wolf, astronomer at Heidelberg University. His suggestion was executed by Carl Zeiss, Jena's great optical goods manufacturer. This original is now at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. All subsequent planetariums have been made by Zeiss. Most interesting of all is on top of the Hannoverischer Anzeiger's ten-story building at Hanover, built for publicity...
Benito Mussolini, irked that the children of Germany should see the stars more clearly than the children of Fascismo, commanded that a great planetarium should be built by the firm of Carl Zeiss of Jena, Germany, and delivered over to Rome...
...Zeiss firm of Jena will sell these instruments only to cities, universities, museums, after guarantee that they will not be used for profit. Each a universe and a lecture room combined, these hun dred-foot domes reproduce the movements of all heavenly bodies, but are. available for ordinary class purposes when not wanted for astronomical demonstration...