Title: Glass of the alchemists : lead crystal-gold ruby, 1650-1750 /
Authors: Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo von.; Brain, Colin.; Corning Museum of Glass.
Publisher: Corning Museum of Glass,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Glass manufacture Europe History Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture Europe History Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture Chemistry Europe History Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture Chemistry Europe History Exhibitions.; Alchemy Exhibitions.
Contents: Foreword / David Whitehouse -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk -- Alchemy as the imitator of nature / Pamela H. Smith -- What alchemists knew : early modern chymistry / William R. Newman -- Depicting alchemy : illustrations from Antonio Neri's 1599 manuscript / Paul Engle -- Itineraries of glass innovation : Johann Rudolf Glauber and his followers / Werner Loibl -- Late 17th-century changes in Bohemian glassmaking / Olga Drahotová -- Johann Joachim Becher and the beginnings of Baroque glassmaking in central Europe / Martin Mádl -- Vitrum saturni : lead glass in Britain / Colin Brain -- Gold ruby glass / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk -- Catalog / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk -- The "alchemy" of glass today.