PRELMINARY DRAFTS ON GLASS

 

 

The following contains a very rough, preliminary, draft of the book which was finally published as The Glass Bathyscaphe. This draft was completed about nine months before the final book. Many arguments are provisional, the footnotes have not been checked, and the order of informaton is different. However, the draft does contain many bibliographical details and quotations which cannot be found in the final published work. This extra information may be useful for those who wish to pursue the matter further or wish to know the background to certain statements in the published work. This webpage also provides an example of how books are written, with considerable changes in the structure of the argument and the mode of presentation continuing until the very end.

The draft chapters can be downloaded as Adobe PDF files.

1. Puzzles and Clues	click here
Glass in Western Eur-Asia
2. Glass in Western Eur-Asia to the Fall of Rome	click here
3. Glass in Islamic Civilisation	click here
4. Class in Western Europe from 400-1200 A.D.	click here
5. Glass in Europe from 1100-1700	click here
Glass and Reliable Knowledge
6. The First Scientific Revolution	click here
7. Glass and the Renaissance: Art	click here
8. Glass and the Renaissance: Individualism	click here
9. The Classic Scientific Revolution and Glass	click here
10. Some other ways in which glass altered life in the west	click here
Glass in Central and Eastern Eur-Asia
11. Glass in India	click here
12. Glass in China	click here
13. Glass in Japan	click here
Clashes and Divergences
14. Glass and the Clash of Civilisations	click here
15. Spectacles and Predicaments	click here
16. Myopia: its comparative incidence and probable causes	click here
17. Seeing Near and Seeing Far	click here
Conclusion
18. Effective Action and Reliable Knowledge	click here
19. Bibliography	click here