Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Glass in the east and west and its consequences
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Why does one culture take one path and not another? The relative absence of glass in East Asia explains many features about the differences of civilizations, but we should be careful about deducing effects. The importance of glass for navigation and other practical sciences. Simon Schaffer explains in Faraday's laboratory. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:32 |
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| 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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