History's first clear, comprehensive work on metallurgy, published in 1540, describing in detail the equipment and processes of 16th-century mining, smelting and metalworking. 94 original woodcuts. Introduction.
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History's first clear, comprehensive work on metallurgy, published in 1540, describing in detail the equipment and processes of 16th-century mining, smelting and metalworking. 94 original woodcuts. Introduction.
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Add this copy of The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio (M.I.T. to cart. $65.00, good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by M.I.T. Press.
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Good. Size: 7x5x1; Softcover. Shelf wear. Edges rubbed/creased. Pages unmarked. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
Add this copy of Pirotechnia (M.I.T. Press Paperback Series) to cart. $94.46, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by The MIT Press.
Add this copy of The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio to cart. $159.49, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1959 by Basic Books.
