Historical sequence
Scheiner (1619)
- Oculus, sive fundamentum opticum. Innspruk.
Hartmann (1900)
- Bemerkungen uber den Bau und die Justirung von Spektrographen. Z. Instrumentenkd 20:47
Shack & Platt (1971)
- Production and use of a lenticular Hartmann screen. JOSA 61:656
Liang, Brimm, Goelz, Bille (1994)
- Objective measurement of wave aberrations of the human eye with the use of a Hartmann-Shack wave-front sensor. JOSA-A 11:1949-57
Notes:
The first question people usually ask is: why is the technique called the Hartmann-Shack method? The answer is historical precident.
In 1900 Hartmann devised a method for measuring the ray aberrations of mirrors and lenses simply by using a metal disk with holes drilled in it to use as an aperture which would isolate rays of light so they could be traced. Rays that go the wrong way ar
Seventy years later Shack and Platt invented a new kind of Hartmann screen made from an array of tiny lenses. Their technique came to be known as Shack’s modified Hartmann screen, or Shack-Hartmann for short.
The first use of the Shack-Hartmann method to measure aberrations in human eyes was by Liang and colleagues in 1994. Liang’s paper referred to the technique as the Hartmann-Shack method, which has spawned countless arguments about whether the method is p
In 1619, nearly 400 years ago, the celebrated Jesuit philosopher Scheiner, who was a contemporary of Kepler and Galileo and who published some 75 years prior to Huygens, described a simple device now known as the Scheiner Disk for demonstrating the focus