Beretta, Marco Preface 2004 - Leo S. Olschki P. 1000-1008 Is part of When glass matters : studies in the history of science of art from Graeco-Roman antiquity to Early Modern Era. - ( Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi / Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Firenze ; 53) Chapters from the same volume (available individually) Frontespizio Get chapter Preface Between Nature and Technology: Glass in Ancient chemical Philosophy Get chapter Scientific and technological use of Glass in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Get chapter The Glass "Banausoi" of Sidon and Rome Get chapter Glass and heavenly Spheres: Astronomic Refraction in Ptolemy's "Optics" Get chapter Glassmakers in the West between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Get chapter Chemical Composition of Glass and its Raw Materials: Chronological and Geographical Development in the First Millennium A.D. Get chapter "De tinctio omnium musivorum" Technical Recipes for Glass in the so-called "Mappae Clavicula" Get chapter "Lux et vitrum": the evolution of Stained Glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic Age Get chapter From the Eye to the Eye-Glass. A pre-History of Spetacles Get chapter Glazy Reflections. Notes on the Role of Glass as a "sensorium communis" in the Formation of some Geographical Paradigms Get chapter The "Perspective Glass": from the Pictorial Metaphor to the Invention of the Telescope Get chapter Index of names Get chapter Show more Information DOI: 10.1400/47877 Permalink: https://digital.casalini.it/10.1400/47877