The Glass Bathyscaphe [electronic resource] : How Glass Changed the World
Martin, Gerry2011
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A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling effects of glass on such aspects of civilization as experimental science, perspective, astronomy, zoology and all manner of scientific instrumentation - plus the central role of window-glass technology in making the colder north habitable. The authors show how the divergence in glass technology between west and east (China and Japan) explains differential aspects of E/W development. The last chapter develops the intriguing thesis that glass is one of the principal factors in the development of western civilization.
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Martin, Gerry, AuthorMacfarlane, Alan, 1941-, author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Profile, 2011
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Gerry Martin is an industrialist who has made the history of glass technology his hobby.
ISBN:
9781847651013
Language:
English
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2765800
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