[TheForge] Fwd: [blacksmiths] Early metal history

[Dan scheid]

I think someone is blowing smoke on the start with meteors I have worked
meteors ans smelted iron I think they found some iron ore in there
copper and in the copper smelt process they found iron slag in the fire
and went from there.  I own de re metalica  and like it Dan Scheid

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 21:34 -0600, Dave Mudge wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Ferguson
> To: blacksmiths at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:20 AM
> Subject: [blacksmiths] Early metal history
> 
> 
> I have been reading a little bit on the history of metals, so I have a
> few questions.
> 
> Several sources indicated that the early iron was from meteors,
> identifiable due to the nickel content. I am having a little trouble
> imagining finding enough meteors to make things. Is this correct? What
> have they found from meteors? Where?
> 
> de re metalica was originally published in the 1556 in latin, and
> translated by Herbert Hoover (yes, the president) and his wife into
> English. Has anybody ever seen a copy of this book? Is it worth
> owning? Apparently it has many woodcut drawings of metalworking.
> 
> Any metal history books that would be worth getting? Miller publishes
> a booklet on metal history, a reprint of several articles from the
> 1960s, but it is not very detailed, and tilted towards the history of
> the Miller company.
> 
> Richard
> 
> Sculptures in copper and other metals
> www.fergusonsculpture.com
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Iron Spirits <iron_spirits at bresnan.net>
> Date: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [blacksmiths] Early metal history
> To: blacksmiths at yahoogroups.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The book with Herbert Hoover as the translator is:
> Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica (ISBN: 1162581743 / 1-162-58174-3)
> Hoover, Herbert Clark; Hoover, Lou Henry
> 
> and is available from abebooks.com and amazon.com at a cost of $30-50.
> 
> You can read the book online with http://books.google.com/books and do
> a search for "De re metallica hoover".  Original in Latin is available
> for free in PDF format.
> 
> http://www.archive.org/details/deremetallica50agri is a link for a
> free copy of Hoover's translation in PDF, Kindle, Online and other
> formats.  I downloaded in PDF format and the PDF book looked like it
> was a exact copy, with all woodcut drawings.
> 
> Let it shine, Tom
> 
> 
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