The Glass Bathyscaphe : How Glass Changed the World
Alan MacfarlaneThe Glass Bathyscaphe : How Glass Changed the World
January 1, 2002Profile Books(GB)255 pages
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An account of glass prisms, lenses, mirrors, test-tubes and flat panes, from their discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the present day, as well as an absorbing story about the part that glass has
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