[TheForge] Fwd: [blacksmiths] Early metal history

[Andrew Vida]

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Saint Phlip wrote:
> De Re Metallica is worth every penny you spend on it, if you're
> interested in historical metalwork. It's available at very nice prices
> used through Amazon. com. That's where I got my copy- it was a
> University copy only taken out 2 or 3 times. Excellent condition. Or,
> you can get it new:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Re-Metallica-Georgius-Agricola/dp/0486600068/ref=pd_sim_b_1
> 
> Another one worth every penny you pay is:
> 
> The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio: The Classic
> Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy [Paperback]
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Pirotechnia-Vannoccio-Biringuccio-Sixteenth-Century-Metallurgy/dp/0486261344
> 
> You also might want to look at:
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> On Divers Arts by Theophilus
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Divers-Arts-Theophilus/
> 
> If you have more questions, I'll be happy to give you some answers ;-)
> 
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Dave Mudge <dave at magichammer.net> 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
>>
>>
>> “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement,
>> achievement, and success have no meaning.”
>>
>> Benjamin Franklin
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