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Metallurgia - Chimica - Biringuccio, Vannoccio
Pyrotechnia [...] in which it is a question not only of the diversity of the mines, but also of what is researched in the practice of them. And what belongs to the art of casting, or casting, of metals. Making bells, artglierie, fireworks, & other diuerse very useful things, 1559
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Venice, Gironimo Giglio and co., 1559. In 8 °. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece and papers a3, a6, a8 in facsimile, some restorations, light blooms and halos, some stains, small tear without loss and some holes in r4, small woodworm hole in the lower white margin of the issue 2t, coeval parchment binding, handwritten title on the spine with 3 nerves, restorations, some stains. Stamp of belonging to the title page.
Provenance
Specialist Notes
Chemist, metallurgist, mineralogist and technician, Vannoccio Biringuccio (Siena 1480-Rome 1537) was a profound connoisseur of the scientific notions of his time. An important figure in the Renaissance, he made a significant contribution to the progress of mining. Fully implementing the new experimental method, he maintained a balanced attitude towards alchemists, appreciating what positive they had done for chemistry and blaming all absurdities and impostures. In line with the needs of the technical literature of the time, his treatise De la pirotechnia had exclusively practical purposes: it provided a detailed description of the fundamental procedures of metallurgical chemistry. It deals with minerals and their mines, the "mineral means" so called because "neither all stones nor all metals", alloys, large castings, arts that use fire, powders, bullets, fireworks ... "
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