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Optical Properties of the Compound Eye

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Book cover Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1536,volume 7 / 2))

Abstract

The interest in the dioptric apparatus of the arthropod compound eye goes back to the microscopic studies made about 300 years ago by Hodierna (1644), Hooke (1665), Swammerdam (1644–1673, see 1737–1738) and van Leeuwenhoek (1698, see 1800 and 1939). One and a half centuries later, Müller (1826) presented his mosaic theory according to which an erect image is formed in the eye due to the alleged circumstance that each ommatidium only monitors light coming from that part of the object directly facing it. On the basis of the optical characteristics, Exner (1891) differentiated between three main types of compound eyes, one catoptric, and the two dioptric (apposition and superposition) types. In the catoptric type, the light is transmitted to the photoreceptors by total reflection from the walls of the proximal corneal prolongations. This uncommon type of eye (in e.g. the crab, Phronima) will not be treated in the present review.

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Bernhard, C.G., Gemne, G., Seitz, G. (1972). Optical Properties of the Compound Eye. In: Fuortes, M.G.F. (eds) Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65340-7_10

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