When glass matters : studies in the history of science of art from Graeco-Roman antiquity to Early Modern Era

xiv, 355 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.

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  • Frontespizio
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  • Preface
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  • Between Nature and Technology: Glass in Ancient chemical Philosophy
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  • Scientific and technological use of Glass in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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  • The Glass "Banausoi" of Sidon and Rome
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  • Glass and heavenly Spheres: Astronomic Refraction in Ptolemy's "Optics"
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  • Glassmakers in the West between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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  • Chemical Composition of Glass and its Raw Materials: Chronological and Geographical Development in the First Millennium A.D.
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  • "De tinctio omnium musivorum" Technical Recipes for Glass in the so-called "Mappae Clavicula"
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  • "Lux et vitrum": the evolution of Stained Glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic Age
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  • From the Eye to the Eye-Glass. A pre-History of Spetacles
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  • Glazy Reflections. Notes on the Role of Glass as a "sensorium communis" in the Formation of some Geographical Paradigms
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  • The "Perspective Glass": from the Pictorial Metaphor to the Invention of the Telescope
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  • Index of names
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  ISBN: 8822253183

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  SERIES

  Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi / Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Firenze ; 53
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Physics. Light and infrared and ultraviolet phenomena
  • Glass
  • Pure sciences. Historical, geographic, persons treatment
  • History of ancient world Italy and adjacent territories
  • History of ancient world Greece
  • Economics. Production
  • Chemical Technology

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Glass -- History
  • Glass blowing and working -- History