The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World

Martin, Gerry

ISBN 10: 1861974000 / ISBN 13: 9781861974006

Edité par Profile Books, 2002

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos des auteurs: Gerry Martin is an industrialist who has made the history of glass technology his hobby.

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge. He has often visited and taught in Japan.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the...
Éditeur : Profile Books
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good