[TheForge] Fwd: [blacksmiths] Early metal history

Mon Mar 7 10:50:59 EST 2011

>From the first message in this thread:

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

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:44 AM,  <blakkpawss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Where at?  Could you provide a link?
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> DRM is available online free.
>
> 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:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- 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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