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This book has been written for various reasons.
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In the first place in order to put on record the experience gained in 45 years of looking conscientiously and critically, trying to analyse why the things we see look good or bad.
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Secondly we should like, by this book, to give the technique and the art of lighting the standing and the place it deserves among so many other new technical sciences.
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Finally, we have tried to prove that the human factor is of prime importance when we try to find the optimum visual conditions. This human factor has, hitherto, been sadly neglected, as it has been in many other technical sciences which are too often considered as of a purely physical nature.
“….it is up to our engineers and our architects to reveal clearly that the aim of the technical progress is to help the human being in his quest for his autonomy and the fullness of his being.
Jean Fourastié
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© 1971 N.V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven
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Kalff, L.C. (1971). Epilogue. In: Creative Light. Philips Technical Library. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01130-8_12
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