Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - The importance of glass instruments in seventeenth century science

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

In Faraday's laboratory in the Royal Institution, Simon Schaffer explains the importance of glass receivers which gave you a space you could see and manipulate and test atmospherics and other things.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 16:22
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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