Attribution and other enquiries
After almost 40 years of responding carefully
to every message about attribution and other enquiries, including many
concerning supposed “secrets” hidden in Leonardo’s works, I am stepping aside from
this aspect of my activity. As a professor, I have been committed to the notion
of public service, and have not taken any money for opinions, but the quantity
of material I receive and the abuse to which I am subsequently subject on the
internet means that this ideal is no longer sustainable in the IT age. I am
sorry. This is a pity, but my work as a historian in public is being seriously
distorted, not least by the unnecessary personalisation of arguments about
matters of judgement. I will continue to
engage selectively with a few major items/issues and with important
developments in the academic and public domains.
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