Book ID: CBB000952756

The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking (2009)

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Beretta, Marco (Author)


Watson Publishing International LLC


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xviii + 198 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Includes chapters on artificial and natural glass in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece as well as in the Byzantine and the Early Modern worlds.


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Review Boer, Pieter (2010) Review of "The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 313). unapi

Review Martelli, Matteo (2011) Review of "The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 252). unapi

Review Anderson, Robert G. W. (2011) Review of "The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 548). unapi

Review Seavers, Stephanie (2011) Review of "The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking". Technology and Culture (p. 813). unapi

Essay Review Martinón-Torres, Marcos (2012) Is That Stone Genuine?. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 489-492). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Shiyanthi Thavapalan
Cesteros, Miriam Blanco
Vinzenz Brinkmann
Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann
Wee, John Zhu-En
Tsoucalas, Gregory
Concepts
Alchemy
Glass and glassmaking
Technology
Crafts and craftspeople
Chemistry
Astronomy
Time Periods
Ancient
Bronze age
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Egypt
Greece
Mesopotamia
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
China
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