Biringuccio, Vannoccio

Biringuccio, Vannoccio. The Pirotechnica of Vannoccio Biringuccio translated by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi. New York Dover, 1990. 

Biringuccio, Vannoccio. La pirotechnia. Venice Venturino Roffinello, Ad instantia di Curio Nau. SiFratelli, 1540. 

After mentioning calamine, Vannoccio Biringuccio stated in his Pirotechnia in 1540 Anodier similar half-mineral is Z offer. It is heavy like metal. It does not melt by itself, but when mixed with vitreous sub-... 

The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Ores and Assaying, ed. and trans. Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi, rev. ed. (1959 facsimile, New York Dover Publications, 1990), 159-60. 

The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio, ed. and trans. Smith and Gnudi, 201. On antimony, see Claus Priesner and Karin Figala, eds., Alchemie Lexikon einer hermetischen Wissenschaft (Munich Beck, 1998), s.v. "Antimon."... 

A240. Woodcut from Vannoccio Biringuccio Pirotechnia Venice, 1540. 

Vannoccio Biringuccio, The Pirotecnia, Basic Books, Inc. (Translation), N. Y. (re-issued) 1959 also paperback edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1966. 

At this time, alchemy had been overlaid with mystical theory but with very little in the way of useful theoretical concepts. There was also a lack of clear, comprehensible descriptions of chemical reactions and of the behavior of metals and non-metals. At the beginning of the P century of the Modern Age two men changed the situation, Vannoccio Biringuccio, born in 1480 and Georgius Agricola, born in 1494. 

The Italian metaUui ist Vannoccio Biringuccio was bom in Siena, a university town in Tuscany. The local authorities belonged to the Petrucci family. 

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