Glass of the alchemists
Subtitle: lead crystal-gold ruby, 1650-1750
By: Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, with contributions by Colin Brain, ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brain, Colin.; Corning Museum of Glass.
Publisher: Corning Museum of Glass
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Corning, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780872901698
Subjects: Glass manufacture -- Europe -- 17th century -- History -- Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture -- Europe -- 18th century -- History -- Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture -- Chemistry -- 17th century -- History -- Exhibitions.; Glass manufacture -- Chemistry -- 18th century -- History -- Exhibitions.; Alchemy -- Exhibitions.; Glassware -- Europe -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Lead crystal-gold ruby, 1650-1750
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title held June 27, 2008-January 4, 2009 at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Whitehouse; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk; title: Alchemy as the imitator of nature / Pamela H. Smith; title: What alchemists knew : early modern chymistry / William R. Newman; title: Depicting alchemy : illustrations from Antonio Neri's 1599 manuscript / Paul Engle; title: Itineraries of glass innovation : Johann Rudolf Glauber and his followers / Werner Loibl; title: Late 17th-century changes in Bohemian glassmaking / Olga Drahotová; title: Johann Joachim Becher and the beginnings of Baroque glassmaking in central Europe / Martin Mádl; title: Vitrum saturni : lead glass in Britain / Colin Brain; title: Gold ruby glass / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk; title: Catalog / Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk; title: The "alchemy" of glass today.