Aplanat lens

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The Aplanat or Rapid Rectilinear is a lens design, invented by John Henry Dallmeyer and simultaneously and independently by Hugo Adolph Steinheil in 1866. The design greatly reduces radial distortion and it was the most important lens design of the 1860-1880 period.

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