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 ...

This eye test chart was first invented by Ferdinand Monoyer, a French opthalmologist, or eye doctor, who would have been 181 years old today. Born on 9 May 1836 in Lyon, Monoyer studied medicine ...

But the visual-acuity charts, also known as eye charts, that ophthalmologists rely on to test patients’ vision are typically printed in Latin script. To the visiting doctors, this was an issue ...