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‘The eye's aplanatic answer’

by P. Artal & J. Tabernero published in Nature Photonics

The human eye is a simple, but extremely robust, optical instrument. Analysis by sophisticated wavefront-sensing technology and customized ray-tracing has now revealed that the eye is actually an aplanatic design, with the cornea and lens compensating each other's aberrations.