The "Perspective Glass": from the Pictorial Metaphor to the Invention of the Telescope

P. 1000-1026

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

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

  DOI: 10.1400/47888

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