W. Poulet

Poulet, W. was the pseudonym used by Jean-Paul Wayenborgh to write his History of Spectacles "Die Brille". [ Die Brille, 3 volumes, Wayenborgh Publisher, Bonn 1978-1980. English, French and Japanese translations (each in two volumes)] This history was the first systematic presentation and description of more than 2000 historical spectacles from the Zeiss Collection in Oberkochen, Germany, the Hallauer Collection (Museum for the History of Medicine in Bern, Switzerland) and the Pierre Marly Collection (now Essilor Collection).

Poulet wrote further under his real name: "IBBO-International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Vision Scientists", Wayenborgh Publishing, Ostend 2001-2002.He wrote an historical paper in the medical journal "Strabismus": J.-P. Wayenborgh "Florent Cunier (1812-1852). A tragic Figure in Ophthalmic History", Strabismus, 9,177-178, Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse 2001.

Wayenborgh is publisher of Julius Hirschberg´s "History of Ophthalmology" (18 volumes) and publisher and editor of "The Monographs" (a supplement series to Hirschberg's History). Wayenborgh also published "E.-H. Schmitz" "Handbuch zur Geschichte der Optik" [Handbuch zur Geschichte der Optik by E.-H. Schmitz, 15. vols. , Bonn & Ostend 1981-1995] and is currently (since 2006) editing the English translation of the last named work.

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