Glass A World History
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Glass
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Author : Alan Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002-10
Glass written by Alan Macfarlane and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity's relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution. Clear, compelling, and quite provocative, Glass is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that has been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.
Glass
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Glass written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Glassware categories.
Glass
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Author : Fritz Kampfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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Glass
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Author : Fritz Kämpfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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Glass
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Author : Fritz Kampfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Glass written by Fritz Kampfer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Glass
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Author : Fritz Kämpfer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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Masterpieces Of Glass
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Author : Robert Jesse Charleston
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 1990
Masterpieces Of Glass written by Robert Jesse Charleston and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Glass categories.
"This book is an attempt to present the history of glass through the collections of The Corning Museum of Glass. Opened in 1951, the museum has acquired through gift and purchase nearly twenty thousand glasses from all periods, and displays one of the most comprehensive collections of glass in the world"--Introduction, p. 9.
How Glass Changed The World
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Author : Seth C. Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-02-23
How Glass Changed The World written by Seth C. Rasmussen and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Glass production is thought to date to ~2500 BC and had found numerous uses by the height of the Roman Empire. Yet the modern view of glass-based chemical apparatus (beakers, flasks, stills, etc.) was quite limited due to a lack of glass durability under rapid temperature changes and chemical attack. This “brief” gives an overview of the history and chemistry of glass technology from its origins in antiquity to its dramatic expansion in the 13th century, concluding with its impact on society in general, particularly its effect on chemical practices.
Masterpieces Of Glass
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Author : Robert J. Charleston
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Glass
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Author : David Whitehouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Glass written by David Whitehouse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES categories.
"A concise history of glassmaking around the world, from Mesopotamia to the present day"--