The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking History of Technology Despite its beauty and value

Despite its beauty and value

medicine and early modern society

Although modern in its mathematical and empiricist approach

Douglas of Illinois attacked the Smithsonian for its preoccupation with research of “no practical bearing

The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking History of Technology Despite its beauty and valueBeretta, Marco In antiquity, glass, more than any known product of the earth, was a material that could be easily shaped and colored to imitate any precious stone or mineral substance; its natural lustre and transparency inspired ancient naturalists and philosophers at a very early stage to find an explanatory theory that could give a rational account of these marvelous properties. Such efforts increased after the technical revolution inspired by the