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Optical materials for ophthalmic lenses
Authors: Chandrinos, Aristeidis
Tzamouranis, Dorotheos-Dimitrios
Mouzaka, Ekaterini
Karetsos, George
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Long before man, nature itself had created glass. One of the forms of natural glass, perhaps the most common, is obsidian, which man has been using for more than a million years to make his tools. Recently we have discovered findings, of handmade glass, in the remains of ancient civilizations of the Middle East. Although it has been mainly developed on the Syrian coast, glassblowing expertise spread very quickly throughout the Roman Empire. This began in Venice around 1200 AD, which has been developed into Europe's largest glass-making center. Although bottle-making was still comparatively an unskillful process, the number of goods packaged in glass still increased rapidly. In the last century, in human societies there was a clear need to use materials that could be artificially prepared with cheap raw materials, so that they could be shaped and be transformed into objects in an easy way.
Linguistic Editors: Kraia, Argyro
Graphic Editors: Tsakmaki, Eleni
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 27-02-2024
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12660
Bibliographic Reference: Chandrinos, A., Tzamouranis, D., Mouzaka, E., & Karetsos, G. (2024). Optical materials for ophthalmic lenses [Chapter]. In Chandrinos, A., Tzamouranis, D., Mouzaka, E., & Karetsos, G. 2024. Optical Technology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/12660
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Optical Technology
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions