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  • Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XXII/Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics/Optical Fabrication and Testing
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper FWW6
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2004.FWW6

Against the Hockney-Falco thesis: Glass and metal mirrors of the 15th century could not project undistorted images

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Abstract

Inspection of surviving mirrors and related objects shows that they were too crude to offer the early Renaissance painter an optical short-cut to a naturalistic image of his subject. The craftsmanship of mirror makers was independent of and inferior to the quality of theories of image formation of the day.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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