When glass matters : studies in the history of science and art from Graeco-Roman antiquity to early modern era / edited by Marco Beretta.

Firenze : Leo S. Olschki, 2004.

xiv, 355 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Between nature and technology : glass in ancient chemical philosophy / Marco Beretta -- Scientific and technological use of glass in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Giovanni di Pasquale -- the glass banausoi of Sidon and Rome / E. Marianne Stern -- Glass and heavenly spheres : astronomic refraction in Ptolemy's optics / Giorgio Strano -- Glassmakers in the West between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Chemical composition of glass and its raw materials : chronological and geographical development in the first millennium A.D. / Cesare Fiori and Mariangela Vandini -- De tinctio omnium musivorum : technical recipes for glass in the so-called Mappae Clavicula / Francesca Tolaini -- Lux et vitrum : the evolution of stained glass from the late Roman Empire to the Gothic age / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- From the eye to the eye-glass : a pre-history of spectacles / Marco Beretta -- Glazy reflections : notes on the role of glass as a sensorium communis in the formation of some geographical paradigms / Mario Neve -- The "Perspective Glass" : from the pictorial metaphor to the invention of the telescope / Filippo Camerota.

Includes bibliographical references and index.