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What did Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz invent?

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A pioneer in physiological optics and author of a Treatise on Physiological Optics (1867; tr., 3 vol., 1924-25), he extended Thomas Young's theory of color vision, explained the mechanism of lens accommodation in the eye, and invented (1851) the ophthalmoscope.

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