age ~94
from Parkville, MD
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-dimen...
Author
Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226500284
EAN Code
9780226500287
ISBN #
10
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,...
Author
Alan Macfarlane, Gerry Martin
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
272
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
ISBN #
1861974000
EAN Code
9781861974006
ISBN #
8