Unravelled dreams : silk and the Atlantic world, 1500-1840 /

Spontaneous Generation and Marvellous Transformations Under magnification, the fibres of cotton, linen and wool appear twisted, hatched, knobbly or scaled. In contrast, silk strands were described in 1665 by the first English micrographer as "small, round, hard, transparent and to their bigness...

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Main Author: Marsh, Ben, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: HD9928.A787 M37 2020
 
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