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Date: Monday 27th February 2017 10:30
Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park)
Subject: The History of Natural and Manmade Glass
Lecturer: John Hopwood
Glass is a naturally formed material due to volcanic activity, lightning strikes and meteorite impacts and has been used by man to make tools, jewellery and weapons for many thousands of years.
Since it was discovered how to manufacture glass it was first used as a simple decorative material, then to produce elegant containers and tableware and latterly has been developed into a highly sophisticated material utilised in construction, space exploration and in many areas of scientific and technological discovery, advancement and experimentation.
The lecture will endeavour to explain, in simple terms and with many illustrations, how the manufacture of glass has developed over the years since it was first accidentally produced by Phoenician traders on the beaches of north Syria.
![PortlandVase The Portland Vase, perhaps from Rome, Italy, ca. 5-25 CE. The general subject of the vase is love and marriage with a mythological theme. It may have been made as a wedding gift. Cut cameo glass, h. 24 cm. diam. 17.7 cm. Inv. GR 1945.9-27.1 (Gems 4036). Image licenced to Andrew Shapira ARION JOURNAL by Andrew Shapira Usage : - 3000 X 3000 pixels (Letter Size, A4) © © The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource](https://i0.wp.com/www.u3amoraira-teulada.org/wp-content/uploads/PortlandVase.jpg?w=169&h=202&ssl=1)