When glass matters : studies in the history of science of art from Graeco-Roman antiquity to Early Modern Era

xiv, 355 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.

• Información

  ISBN: 8822253183

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  COLECCIÓN

  Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi / Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Firenze ; 53
  

  MATERIAS

  • Física. Luz y fenómenos infrarroja y ultravioleta
  • Vidrio
  • Ciencia naturales y matemáticas. Tratamiento histórico, geográfico y de personas
  • Historia. Italia y territorios adyacentes hasta 476
  • Historia. Grecia hasta 323
  • Economía. Producción
  • Chemical Technology

  ENCABEZAMIENTOS DE MATERIA

  • Glass -- History
  • Glass blowing and working -- History
• En este volumen

  • Frontespizio
  • Preface
  • Between Nature and Technology: Glass in Ancient chemical Philosophy
  • Scientific and technological use of Glass in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
  • The Glass "Banausoi" of Sidon and Rome
  • Glass and heavenly Spheres: Astronomic Refraction in Ptolemy's "Optics"
  • Glassmakers in the West between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Chemical Composition of Glass and its Raw Materials: Chronological and Geographical Development in the First Millennium A.D.
  • "De tinctio omnium musivorum" Technical Recipes for Glass in the so-called "Mappae Clavicula"
  • "Lux et vitrum": the evolution of Stained Glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic Age
  • From the Eye to the Eye-Glass. A pre-History of Spetacles
  • Glazy Reflections. Notes on the Role of Glass as a "sensorium communis" in the Formation of some Geographical Paradigms
  • The "Perspective Glass": from the Pictorial Metaphor to the Invention of the Telescope
  • Index of names