A Brief Scientific History of Glass

[sohkamyung]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-brief-scientific-history-of-glass-180979117/

[chrisbrandow]

My favorite alternate history idea is that it is plausible that major scientific advances could have come a couple thousand years earlier if humans had stumbled upon the recipe for clear glass.

Clear glass -> lenses -> (glasses, telescopes, and microscopes)