The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World by Gerry Martin, Alan Macfarlane

The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World

Gerry Martin, Alan Macfarlane

272 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Glass is one of the greatest accidents in the history of humankind.' - this is the first full story of its development and the effects it had on every aspect of culture from astronomy and navigation to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.

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