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Part I Practices that Inhibit Invention, Discovery, and Innovation and the Development of Science and Technology -- 1 Authority: Experts and Consensus as Barriers to Invention, Discovery, and Innovation -- 2 Authority: Government's Science and Technology Policy and its Consequences as Barriers to Invention, Discovery, and Innovation -- 3 Authority: Expert Opinion, Consensus, and its Consequences as Barriers to Invention, Discovery, and Innovation -- 4 Authority: Spurious Execution of Experiments, Analysis of Data, and Interpretation of Data, that Leads to Spurious Conclusions as Barriers to Invention, Discovery, and Innovation -- Part II Practices that Promote Invention, Discovery, and Innovation in Science and Technology -- 5 Practices that Promote Invention, Discovery, and Innovation in Science and Technology: Curiosity, Skepticism, Critical Thinking, Risk-taking, and Interdisciplinary Education -- 6 Why These Medical Devices Received Widespread Clinical Acceptance While Many Other Promising Devices Failed to do so? -- Part III The Human Eye: A Window to the World -- 7 Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Eye -- 8 The Human Visual System (Eye and Brain) -- 9 Optical Properties of the Human Eye -- Part IV Eye-to-Eye: Observing the Human Eye, Visual Optical Instruments -- 11 Goldmann's Slit Lamp Microscopy, Focal Illumination, and Optical Sectioning -- 12 Scheimpflug and His Camera -- 13 Maurice and His Specular Microscope -- Part V Detector-to-Eye: New Technology for Imaging the Human Eye -- 14 The Confocal Microscope -- 15 The Fundus Camera, Fluorescein and Indocyanine Green Angiography -- 16 The Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (SLO) -- 17 Optical Aberrations and Adaptive Optics (AO) -- 18 Optical Low-Coherence Tomography (OCT) -- 19 The Importance of Responsible Conduct of Research -- Index. |