The early history of glass and its discovery. The virtues of glass for civilization – transparent, inert, relatively easy to work. The amazing effects on light. Modern scientific advance crucially dependent on glass, as Simon Schaffer explains in Faraday’s laboratory
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, every laboratory was filled with glassware, and every train...
none1noThis volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the int...
With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed earl...
Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, i.e., no sc...
none1noThis volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the int...
This volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the interactio...
In Faradayâs laboratory in the Royal Institution, Simon Schaffer explains the importance of glass re...
The importance of scientific instruments in the scientific revolution, especially brass and glass. P...
This volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the interactio...
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in t...
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in t...
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scien...
Simon Schaffer in Faraday’s laboratory at the Royal Institution talks about spectacles, short-sighte...
This book presents a history of the development of glass. Chapters discuss the nature of the materia...
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, every laboratory was filled with glassware, and every train...
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, every laboratory was filled with glassware, and every train...
none1noThis volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the int...
With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed earl...
Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, i.e., no sc...
none1noThis volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the int...
This volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the interactio...
In Faradayâs laboratory in the Royal Institution, Simon Schaffer explains the importance of glass re...
The importance of scientific instruments in the scientific revolution, especially brass and glass. P...
This volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the interactio...
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in t...
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in t...
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scien...
Simon Schaffer in Faraday’s laboratory at the Royal Institution talks about spectacles, short-sighte...
This book presents a history of the development of glass. Chapters discuss the nature of the materia...
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, every laboratory was filled with glassware, and every train...
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, every laboratory was filled with glassware, and every train...
none1noThis volume surveys the historical relations of science and technology by privileging the int...
With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed earl...