作者:
Alan Macfarlane
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Gerry Martin 出版社: University Of Chicago Press 副标题: A World History 出版年: 2002-10-1 页数: 288 定价: USD 27.50 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226500287
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 benefits of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators c...
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 benefits 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 jewellery 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. Clear, compelling and quite provocative, "Glass" is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that as been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.
Who invented lab dish? Petri dish- a German physician Who invented telescope? Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey Who invented clock? In Bathyscaphe that indicates for sailing. Quote from Wikipedia “The Dutch scientist Gemma Frisius was the first to prop...
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