Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - The role and effect of mirrors on civilizations
Duration: 7 mins 47 secs
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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.
Against the background of a Venetian glass factory on the island of Murano, Alan Macfarlane describes some of the artistic, scientific and psychological effects of glass mirrors in the west and the different use of mirrors in eastern Asia. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:54 |
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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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