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The volume’s editor, Sven Dupré, a historian of Renaissance optics, summarizes the conclusions of the contributors. It makes the Hockney–Falco theory “extremely unlikely as far as its application for the period before the first textual reference to image projection around 1550 is concerned”, he writes. This well-written volume may close the door on the Hockney–Falco tracing thesis. But it should also prove a good resource, especially for optical scientists lacking a background in the history of art or science, from which to explore optics in the early Renaissance.
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