The Glass Bathyscaphe

How Glass Changed the World

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Manufacturing, Engineering
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Author: Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin ISBN: 9781847651013
Publisher: Profile Publication: October 13, 2011
Imprint: Profile Books Language: English
Author: Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin
ISBN: 9781847651013
Publisher: Profile
Publication: October 13, 2011
Imprint: Profile Books
Language: English

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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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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