Louis Émile Javal of text, but make short rapid movements (saccades) intermingled with short stops (fixations). Javal's observations were characterised by a reliance on naked-eye observation of eye movement in the absence of technology. Javal's interest in strabismus was due to the disorder affecting his father and sister. Javal himself had heterochromia. At middle-age Javal developed glaucoma, and by 1900 was totally blind. He was a friend of Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859-1917), the inventor of Esperanto, and he stressed the importance of learning this language by the blind. In addition, he was involved in social reform issues that included education and circumstances surrounding
Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia (1859) the first edition of the years (1872-1876, 1877-1879, 1883-1884, 1898-1904) had a volume-reduced form. In 1984-1985, a reprint of the original version was published in Poland. The creators of the publication's content were many representatives of the Polish nineteenth-century intelligentsia. In entry to the first volume published in 1859, a list of authors of the encyclopedia has been published. It contained the following names: Adam Adamowicz, Jerzy Alexandrowicz, Władysław Ludwik Anczyc, Michał Baliński, Jan Baranowski, Sadok Barącz, Adam Bartoszewicz, Julian Bartoszewicz, Władysław Bentkowski, Feliks Berdau, Leopold Berkiewicz, Cezary Biernacki, Julian Bleszyński, Kazimierz Bujnicki, Ignacy Chodźko, Teofil Cichocki, Wojciech Cybulski, Wincenty