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“Books of this kind (‘Alba Amicorum’) grew out of university culture in Germany in the sixteenth century, but by the seventeenth century had become a form of social networking used by people of all professions and stages in life — the seventeenth-century Facebook… Thro

Georg Bartisch (1535–1607) was a German physician, a native of Königsbrück, Saxonia, who became, in the words of the University of Texas, ‘the father of ophthalmology’. He began his medical career as just 13, working as an apprentice to a barber surgeon. This was followed by two additional appren