Leo S. Olschki, Firenze , Biblioteca di Nuncius Studi e Testi Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2004 Book condition, Etat : Très bon paperback, editor's white printed wrappers grand In-8 1 vol. - 369 pages
a few black and white text-figures and 18 plates out of text (complete) 1st edition, 2004 "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, xiv, Text, Index of names, 355 pages - Betwenn nature and technology : Glass in ancient chemical philosophy - Scientific and technological use of glass in Graeco-Roman antiquity - The glass Banausoi of Sidon and Rome - Glass and heavenly spheres : Astronomic refraction in Ptolemy's optics- Glassmakers in the west between late antiquity and the Middle Ages - Chemical composition of glass and its raw materials : Chronological and geographical development in the first millennium A.D. - Technical recipes for glass in the so-called Mappae clavicula - The evolution of stained glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic Age - From the eye to the eye-glass. A pre-history of spectacles - Glazy reflections. Notes on the role of glass as a sensorium communis in the formation of some geographical paradigms - The "" perspective glass "" : from the pictorial metaphor to the invention of the telescope" near fine copy, the editor's wrappers are fine, inside is fine, clean and unmarked