Neri, Antonio

Neri (1612/Mentasti 1980) Neri, Antonio L Arte Vetraria Edizioni il Pohfilo, Milano (1980) (Facsimile of original 1612 edition wifti notes by Rosa Barovier Mentasti)... 

Antonio Neri, who wrote a treatise on glassmaking, first printed in Italian in 1612, refers to This method of imitating gems which I received (or obtained) from Isaac Hollandus when I was in Flanders. Neri s sojourn in Flanders was about 1609. This statement does not in itself necessitate the interpretation of personal contact between Neri and Isaac Hollandus, although von Lippmann calls attention to the fact that Neri, in his work, has not the habit of citing written works as authorities, and that the published works of Hollandus contain no such matter as Neri here describes. 

Publication of the textbook L Arte Vetraria by Antonio Neri in Pisa. This was the first systematic account of the preparation of the raw materials for glassmaking. 

Clearly, the ability to synthesize nanoparticles preceded the understanding of nanoscale phenomena. Systematic studies of nanoparticles began to appear as early as the seventeenth century. Antonio Neri, a Florentine glass maker and priest, describes the synthesis of colloidal gold in his 1612 treatise L Arte Vetraria. John Kunckel, revised and translated Neri s work into german in 1689. Kunckel is often credited with the discovery that glass can be colored red by addition of gold. 

Donatella Senatra, Cecilia Gambi, Antonio Neri, Matteo Vannini... 

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