Anastigmatic lens

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An anastigmatic lens or anastigmat is a lens that is completely corrected for the three main optical aberrations: spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism. The anastigmatic lens was designed by Paul Rudolph for Carl Zeiss Jena in 1890.

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