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Title: The Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio ISBN: 0-486-26134-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The first metallurgy text
Comment: This is not an easy book to read. It predates Agriccola's De Re Metallica by several years, and has not yet made the bridge of thought from alchemy into chemistry. As a result, the section on fireworks speaks of principles of air and such to explain how they work.
Additionally, many of the usages are different than we think of them today. For example, in the production of Aqua Fortis (nitric acid), one of the steps involves the use of red alum. After 10 years of research, I finally figured out that this referred to alunite, a mineral alum found in a certain mine in Italy which contained a high level of iron.
Given the difficulty in interpreting what is being said, it is still an invaluable book to researchers in the field. It contains valuable information about the thought and processes in use in Italian metallurgy in the 16th century.
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Title: On Divers Arts by Theophilus, John G. Hawthorne, C. S. Smith ISBN: 0486237842 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 August, 1979 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol. 1 by Denis Diderot ISBN: 0486274284 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Science and the Secrets of Nature by William Eamon ISBN: 0691026025 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson ISBN: 0486203271 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The CraftsmanÂs Handbook by Cennino Cennini ISBN: 048620054X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1954 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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