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The purpose of this page is to make a reference to those images used on my
site which were scanned from the book whose title and copyright page are
shown below. As included, up to 10 images may be published without
special permission. I scanned text and images from the copy X2451288
1 of the Dallas Public Library, CBT 603 D555 Vol.2 The Glass discussion and images are all from Volume X of Diderot which are used on this site under fair use copyright law-link and the copyright license included in the title pages below. According to this website http://store.doverpublications.com/0486274292.html the paperback version of this edition is still available for $29.99 ISBN: 0486274292 |
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A DIDEROT PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADES AND INDUSTRY Manufacturing and the
Technical Arts in Plates Selected from Edited with Introduction and Notes by CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE In Two Volumes Volume Two DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC., NEW YORK 1959 Copyright © 1959 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2. This Dover edition, first published in 1959, is a selection of 485 plates from the Encyclopedia, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts, et des Metiers. The selection was made mainly from plates concerned with manufacturing and the technical arts. The plates were selected and the introduction and notes were written by Charles Coulston Gillispie, and the index was compiled by the editorial staff of Dover Publications. Most of the plates have been reproduced facsimile size. This book is sold with the understanding that illustrations in it may be reproduced for advertising or editorial purposes without payment or specific authorization. This permission is, however, limited to the use of not more than ten illustrations in any one publication or issue. Please address the publisher for permission to make more extensive use of the illustrations in this volume. In every instance the publisher will appreciate the usual credit line, indicating title, editor and publisher. Standard Book Number: 486-22285-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-15Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N.Y. 10014 |
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The book is in major sections. The first is the layout and
processes of a glass factory in general - the layout, how a furnace is
built, making pots, moving them. The second is making glass -
calcining, recovering cullet, mixing, and melting. Then there are sections
on the use of the glass - Blowing Goblets, Drawing Glass Tubing, Bottle
Making, Crown Glass Making, Broad Glass and Plate Glass. Where
needed sections or plans of the furnaces showing differences are included
along with a small section on an English glassworks. It is obvious, in looking at some of the images and the text, that either Diderot or the editor or both did not have complete understanding of the glass processes, but considering the magnitude of both original and English editions with hundreds of etched images and text for each one, that is not surprising. |
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Plate
250 Broad sheet workshop. This version of
Diderot does not mention the several reheats that the method would
take, but these would be quick with thin glass. The editor says the
sheets "must be fairly small - about three feet by four" but the size on
the table looks more like 2x3 feet and the tool image (Plate 252) he is
referencing, which has a scale at the bottom, suggests that 40 inches by
20 is more likely.Used in Window Light |
Plate 252 Tools and steps involved in making broad
glass. Scale at right is 2 toise and a toise is about 6 feet. Image
rotated from book. |
