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Paul Engle

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Paul Engle is an independent researcher with a long standing interest in the history of science, glassmaking and the early modern period. His published work includes an English translation of L'Arte Vetraria, the first printed book on glassmaking, by Florentine priest and alchemist Antonio Neri. He lives in rural Massachusetts with his wife Lori and their Maine Coon cat Portia.
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CONCIATORE: The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri

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Non-Fiction, Biography, History of Science

Who was Antonio Neri? A new biography by Paul Engle details the life and times of the author of the first and most famous book on making glass. Venture into the mysterious world of a late Renaissance priest and alchemist; not a fictional character but a real flesh and blood man. Antonio Neri plied his craft in Florence, Pisa and Antwerp at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was both a contemporary of Galileo, and a devotee of Paracelsus. Sponsored by a Medici prince, he is best known for writing L'Arte Vetraria. 
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