Pirotechnia : M.I.T. Press Paperback Series - Vannoccio Biringuccio

Pirotechnia

By: Vannoccio Biringuccio

Paperback | 15 March 1966

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Biringuccio's "Pirotechnia" is the earliest printed work to cover the whole field of metallurgy. Originally printed in Venice in 1540, this was the first book to deal with the applied metal arts and processes of ore reduction and to describe the techniques which had been in development since the bronze age. Written by a master craftsman in a time when knowledge was kept alive by the spoken rather than the written word, this classic marked the beginning of a true technological literature, with both craftsmanship and science united by a writer's pen to form a record of an important facet of man's achievement as a stimulus to further advance. After the publication of the "Pirotechnia," many followed Biringuccio's example, and as a result of this growing literature of technological practice and experimental fact, science eventually became the concern of the educated man.

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