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Why Venice became the centre of glass-making


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Macfarlane, Alan 

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In a Venetian glass factory on the island of Murano, Alan Macfarlane describes some of the reasons why Venice became a centre of glass-making and in particular how it came to make the exquisite ‘cristallo’ glass which, among other things, was used in scientific instruments.

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