Sublime lead : at the intersection of art, science, and politics /
"Lead has been utilized by humanity 1000s of years BCE. The use of lead was facilitated by its ease of production, its association with silver, and its utility. It was highly prized as a material for art (including the Mona Lisa) as well as practical objects like lead piping. As such it became...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Cosmology
- Antiquity science and politics : a monstrous parasite
- Antiquity art : heavy metal
- Antiquity lustful desire
- Central Asia 400 to 1200
- Medieval Europe ca. 1000 to ca. 1450
- Europe 1450 to ca. 1530
- The world : 1500s
- Europe ca 1600 to ca 1700
- 1700s industrialization
- Europe in the 1800s
- America 1800s
- America Early 1900
- America 1930-1950
- America 1960-1980
- America 1980 to 2000
- America 1990-2015.