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  2. Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

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    The Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) is an optical correction instrument designed and built by NASA. It was created to correct the spherical aberration of the Hubble Space Telescope ' s primary mirror , which incorrectly focused light upon the Faint Object Camera (FOC), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and Goddard ...

  3. Preethi Pal - Wikipedia

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    Preethi Pal (born 22 September 2000) is an Indian para athlete. [2] She won two bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the women's 100m and 200m T35 race events and created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win two medals in track and field events at Paralympic Games .

  4. Contact lens - Wikipedia

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    Artist's impression of Leonardo's method for neutralizing the refractive power of the cornea. Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with introducing the idea of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D, [9] wherein he described a method of directly altering corneal power by either submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye.

  5. Talk:Corrective lens - Wikipedia

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    Contacts should make correction easier because the corrective lens is fixed WRT the eye, so an aspheric contact could, I think, provide correction of higher-order optical aberrations than could eyeglasses, e.g., correcting spherical aberration (which isn't what the spherical component does, BTW; that corrects astigmatism).

  6. CR-39 - Wikipedia

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    After the war, the Armorlite Lens Company in California is credited with manufacturing the first CR-39 eyeglass lenses in 1947. CR-39 plastic has an index of refraction of 1.498 and an Abbe number of 58. CR-39 is now a trade-marked product of PPG Industries. [2]

  7. Essilor - Wikipedia

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    After many years as rivals, Essel and Silor merged on 1 January 1972 to form Essilor, then the world's third-largest ophthalmic optical firm. [1] Its first year of existence was marked by the creation of Valoptec, a non-trading company composed of stockholder managers who held half the company's capital stock, and the purchase of Benoist-Bethiot, a French lens manufacturer specializing in ...

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