Glass A World History 1st Edition by Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin ISBN 978-0226500287 0226500284
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ISBN 10: 0226500284
ISBN 13: 978-0226500287
Author: Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin
Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn’t exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity’s relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution.
Table of contents:
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Invisible Glass
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Glass in the West—from Mesopotamia to Venice
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Glass and the Origin of Early Science
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Glass and the Renaissance
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Glass and Later Science
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Glass in the East
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The Clash of Civilizations
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Spectacles and Predicaments
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Visions of the World
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Appendix 1: Types of Glass
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Appendix 2: The Role of Glass in Twenty Experiments that Changed the World
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Further Reading
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Sources for Quoted Passages
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