Metallurgy & Smelting
An English translation of a work by Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer) published in 1556 on the metallurgy and art of mining, refining, and smelting metals.
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Elsewhere, you can view the full text of the original 1556 edition or Bern Dibner's introduction and translation . |
A great many things we take for granted cannot be done efficiently, or at all, without appropriate metal tools. Advances in technology have very often depended on advances in metallurgy.
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Concerned with the investigation of all aspects of the metallurgical process, from smelting to metal finishing, and from the first use of alloys in the 5th/4th millennia BC to the Industrial Revolution.
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Summaries of lectures on smelting practices.
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An attempt to reproduce the lead reduction method of smelting silver, as described in classical, medieval, and renaissance sources on pyrometallurgy.
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Last listing added: 01/18/12
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Last listing added: 01/18/12