9780099256793-0099256797-The Crystal Sun

The Crystal Sun

ISBN-13: 9780099256793
ISBN-10: 0099256797
Edition: New Ed
Author: Robert Temple
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Arrow
Format: Mass Market Paperback 653 pages
Category: World History
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ISBN-13: 9780099256793
ISBN-10: 0099256797
Edition: New Ed
Author: Robert Temple
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Arrow
Format: Mass Market Paperback 653 pages
Category: World History

Summary

The Crystal Sun (ISBN-13: 9780099256793 and ISBN-10: 0099256797), written by authors Robert Temple, was published by Arrow in 2001. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other World History books. You can easily purchase or rent The Crystal Sun (Mass Market Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used World History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $9.81.

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Archaeologists have always insisted most strenuously that lenses did not exist in ancient times. Robert Temple’s real-life detective story proves them wrong. His research began with the discovery that an ancient artifact in the British Museum, believed to be a piece of rock crystal, had, in fact, been ground to form a lens.

In this fascinating book, one of the most revolutionary studies in the history of science and civilization to be published for decades, Robert Temple reconstructs the story of light technology in ancient civilization. Dating back at least to 2600 BC to Old Kingdom Egypt, but unknown to modern archaeologists and historians, a science of optics and a sophisticated technology for the manufacture of lenses was widespread and fundamental in ancient times. It inspired awe in cultures who used it, so became encoded in their mythologies and religions.

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