Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811229787

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Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology by Anonim Pdf

Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000's BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earliest pottery and ceramics dates back to the Shang Dynasty - the Zhou Dynasty (1700 BC-770 BC), while the earliest ancient glass artifacts unearthed in China dates back to the Western Han Dynasty. Utilizing the state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic methods, the recent findings demonstrate that China had already developed its own glassmaking technology at latest since 200 BC. There are two schools of viewpoint on the origin of ancient Chinese glass. The more common one believes that ancient Chinese glass originated from the import of glassmaking technology from the West as a result of Sino-West trade exchanges in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD). The other scientifically demonstrates that homemade ancient Chinese glass with unique domestic formula containing both PbO and BaO were made as early as in the Pre-Qin Period or even the Warring States Period (770 BC-221 BC), known as Yousha or Faience.This English version of the previously published Chinese book entitled Development History of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology is for universities and research institutes where various research and educational activities of ancient glass and history are conducted. With 18 chapters, the scope of this book covers very detailed information on scientifically based findings of ancient Chinese glass development and imports and influence of foreign glass products as well as influence of the foreign glass manufacturing processes through the trade exchanges along the Silk Road(s).

Author : 干福熹
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7547852807

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中国古代玻璃技术发展史(英文) by 干福熹 Pdf

Author : Fuxi Gan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812833563

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Ancient Glass Research Along the Silk Road by Fuxi Gan Pdf

English translation of the Chinese publication Si chou zhi lu shang de gu dai bo li yan jiu, proceedings of the 2004 Urumqi Symposium on Ancient Glass in Northern China and the 2005 Shanghai International Workshop of Archaeology of Glass, with the addition of some new information and six previously unpublished papers presented at the International Congress on Glass held in Kyoto, Japan in 2004.

Author : Robert H. Brill,John H. Martin
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025187670

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Scientific Research in Early Chinese Glass by Robert H. Brill,John H. Martin Pdf

Author : Julian Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139619370

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Ancient Glass by Julian Henderson Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic, and political contexts of its development. The book also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.

Author : Fuxi Gan,Qinghui Li,Julian Henderson
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9789814630290

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Recent Advances in the Scientific Research on Ancient Glass and Glaze by Fuxi Gan,Qinghui Li,Julian Henderson Pdf

"The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical–cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk Road. The contents of this book are dedicated to promote the exchanges between researchers in both social and scientific fields. The scope of this book includes the new archaeological findings of ancient glass and faience in the world, the relationship of glassmaking with glazing technology, the development and application of modern techniques used for the characterization of ancient glass and glaze, compound colorants/opacifiers among ancient glass, the early exchanges of culture and techniques used between China and elsewhere along the Silk Road, and so on."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Seth C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642281839

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How Glass Changed the World by Seth C. Rasmussen Pdf

Glass production is thought to date to ~2500 BC and had found numerous uses by the height of the Roman Empire. Yet the modern view of glass-based chemical apparatus (beakers, flasks, stills, etc.) was quite limited due to a lack of glass durability under rapid temperature changes and chemical attack. This “brief” gives an overview of the history and chemistry of glass technology from its origins in antiquity to its dramatic expansion in the 13th century, concluding with its impact on society in general, particularly its effect on chemical practices.

Author : Alan Macfarlane,Gerry Martin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0226500284

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Glass by Alan Macfarlane,Gerry Martin Pdf

Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity's relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution. Clear, compelling, and quite provocative, Glass is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that has been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.

Author : Ian Freestone,Thilo Rehren
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782972778

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From Mine to Microscope by Ian Freestone,Thilo Rehren Pdf

These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis. Instruments from the human eye to mass spectrometry provide insights into a range of technologies ranging from classical alum extraction to Bronze Age wall painting, and cover materials as diverse as niello, flint, bronze, glass and ceramic. Ranging chronologically from the Neolithic through to the medieval period, and geographically from Britain to China, these case studies provide a rare overview which will be of value to students, teachers and researchers with an interest in early material culture.

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060544

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Brush & Shutter by Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak Pdf

Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.

Author : Ravindra Nath Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015024820170

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Ancient Indian Glass by Ravindra Nath Singh Pdf

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870994838

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Ancient Chinese Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maxwell K. Hearn Pdf

Author : Nigel Wood
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812234766

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Chinese Glazes by Nigel Wood Pdf

Chinese pottery has long been esteemed not only for its beauty and delicacy but also for the utility and efficiency evident in the potter's skill.

Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133530

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The Retreat of the Elephants by Mark Elvin Pdf

The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.

Author : Susan Whitfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957664

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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas by Susan Whitfield Pdf

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.