At least once in your life, you must have squinted at the eye chart at the doctor’s office or DMV, trying to make out the blurry bottom line. The test seems simple enough, right? Read a random string ...
The Jaeger chart was designed to test near vision acuity. Eduard Jaeger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and a professor at the University of Vienna who, in the 1850s, made ...