| Description |
xiv, 355 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi, 1122-0910 ; 53
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and author index. |
| Contents |
Between nature and technology : glass in ancient chemical philosophy / Marco Beretta -- Scientific and technological use of glass in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Giovanni di Pasquale -- The glass banausoi of Sidon and Rome / E. Marianne Stern -- Glass and heavenly spheres : astronomic refraction in Ptolemy's optics / Giorgio Strano -- Glassmakers in the West between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Chemical composition of glass and its raw materials : chronological and geographical development in the first millennium A.D. /Cesare Fiori and Mariangela Vandini -- De tinctio omnium musivorum : technical recipes for glass in the so-called Mappae Clavicula / Francesca Tolaini -- Lux et vitrum : the evolution of stained glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic age / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- From the eye to the eye-glass : a pre-history of spectacles / Marco Beretta -- Glazy reflections : notes on the role of glass as a sensorium communis in the formation of some geographical paradigms / Mario Neve -- The "Perspective Glass" : from the pictorial metaphor to the invention of the telescope / Filippo Camerota. |
| Subject(s) |
Glass -- History.
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Glass blowing and working -- History.
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| Alternate Author |
Beretta, Marco.
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