A treatise on diamonds and precious stones
Author : John Mawe
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1813
Category : Diamonds
ISBN :
Author : John Mawe
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1813
Category : Diamonds
ISBN :
Author : John Mawe
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1815
Category : Diamonds
ISBN :
Author : Isidore Kozminsky
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Charms
ISBN :
Author : Wade, Frank B.
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 1918
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Julius Wodiska
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Precious stones
ISBN :
Author : Frank Bertram Wade
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Gems
ISBN :
Author : Michael Bycroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 3319963791
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The first part sets the scene by describing how gems moved around the early modern world, how they were set in motion, and how they were pulled together in the course of their travels. The second part is about value. It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin. The third part deals with the skills involved in cutting, polishing, and mounting gems, and how these skills were transmitted and articulated by artisans. The common themes of all these chapters are materials, knowledge and global trade. The contributors to this volume focus on the material properties of gems such as their weight and hardness, on the knowledge involved in exchanging them and valuing them, and on the cultural consequences of the expanding trade in gems in Eurasia and the Americas.
Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Gems
ISBN :
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : William Thomas
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465535438