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| Title Page |
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Contents |
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| Preface |
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| 1. The Ore of Gold |
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| 2. The Ore of Silver |
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| 3. The Ore of Copper |
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| 4. The Ore of Lead |
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| 5. The Ore of Tin |
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| 6. The Ore of Iron |
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| 7. The practice of making steel |
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| 8. The practice of making brass |
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| Preface |
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| 1. Quicksilver and its ore |
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| 2. Sulphur and its ore |
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| 3. Antimony and its ore |
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| 4. Marcasite and its quality |
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| 5. Vitriol and its ore |
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| 6. Rock alum and its ore |
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| 7. Arsenic, orpiment and realgar |
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| 8. Common mineral salt and many other artificial salts |
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| 9. Calamine, zaffre and manganese |
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| 10. The lodestone and some of its effects |
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| 11. Bole, ochre, [emery] and borax |
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| 12. Azure and green azure |
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| 13. Glass and other semiminerals |
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| 14. Glass and other semiminerals |
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| 1. The method of assaying the ores of all metals in general, and in particular those containing silver and gold |
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| 2. The method of preparing ores before smelting |
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| 3. The common forms of blast furnaces and other furnaces for smelting ores |
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| 4. The method followed in smelting ores |
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| 5. The method by which lead, silver, and gold are separated from copper when they are all in one mass resulting from the smelting of ores or otherwise |
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| 6. The method of refining silver on the cupel, the arrangement of weights and the method of finishing the assay of gold and silver more skillfully |
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| 7. The method of making cupeling hearths for refining silver in quantity |
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| 8. The method of refining matte and converting it into fine copper |
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| 9. The method of smelting litharge and reducing it to pure lead |
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| 10. The properties of charcoal and the different kinds of it |
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| 1. The method of making the common acid for parting gold fiom silver |
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| 2. The method of assaying silver containing a quantity of gold |
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| 3. The proper method and procedure in parting gold perfectly fiom silver in quantity, by means of acid |
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| 4. The method of retrieving silver and good acid from the pre- cipitates fiom acids |
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| 5. Precautions that must be observed in parting gold from silver with acids |
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| 6. The method of parting gold fiom silver by means of sul- phur or antimony |
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| 7. The method of cementing gold and bringing it to its ulti- mate fineness |
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| 1. The alloy of gold |
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| 2. The alloy of silver with copper |
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| 3. The alloy of copper |
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| 4. The alloys of lead and of tin; their purity and fineness |
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| 1. The quality of the day for making moulds for bronze founding |
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| 2. The arrangement and methods of making the moulds for bronze founding, in general |
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| 3. The differences in guns and their sizes |
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| 4. The arrangements and various ways that are used for making moulds for statues to be cast in bronze |
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| 5. The arrangements and methods for making gun moulds |
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| 6. How the cores are made for gun moulds |
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| 7. Methods of making the third part of the mould, called the breech |
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| 8. The method of making the disc for holding the core |
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| 8 a. The method of supporting the core in the mould at the foot of the gun |
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| 9. Gates and vents for moulds, in general |
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| 10. The baking of moulds for casting in bronze, in general |
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| 11. Necessary advice and precautions in making guns |
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| 12. Methods of making the moulds for bells of all sizes, and their dimensions |
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| 13. The rule for proportioning the weight of the clapper to the size [of the bell]. |
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| 14. The ways of hanging bells |
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| 15. The method of welding [cracked] bells |
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| 1. The method of making reverberatory furnaces for melting metals by the flames of wood |
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| 2. The method of melting metals in the hearth |
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| 3. The method of melting in ladles with charcoal and bellows |
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| 3. a. The method of melting metals in crucible |
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| 4. The method of melting in a wind furnace |
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| 5. The melting of bronzes and other metals, in general |
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| 6. The bronzes and alloyed metals for casting, in general |
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| 7. The methods of arranging various devices for moving the bellows for urging melting fires |
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| 8. Finishing guns, and the arrangement of gun carriages |
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| 9. Methods of casting iron for making balls for shooting with guns |
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| 1. Various methods of making powders for casting, which will receive and withstand bronze well |
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| 2. The method of preparing the salt for making the magistery for moulding powders |
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| 3. The methods of moulding in frames and boxes in the small art |
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| 4. The manner of making the powders for casting in green sand, and the method of moulding |
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| 5. The various methods of moulding reliefs |
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| 6. Note on some materials that have the property of making metals melt easily and run into every corner of the mould |
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| Preface |
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| 1. The art of alchemy in general |
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| 2. The art of distilling oils and waters, and on sublimations |
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| 3. Necessary discourse and advice on working a mint |
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| 4. The art of the goldsmith |
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| 5. The art of the coppersmith |
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| 6. The art of the smith who works in iron |
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| 7. The art of the pewterer |
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| 8. The manner of drawing out gold, silver, copper, and brass by beating, and making wire |
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| 9. [The method of preparing gold for spinning] |
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| 10. The method of removing gold from silver and any other gdded object |
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| 11. The method of extracting every particle of gold and silver from slags of ores |
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| 12. The procedure in making mirrors cast in bell metal |
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| 13. The method of making shells or crucibles for melting |
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| 14. Discourse on the potter's art |
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| 15. Concerning lime and bricks |
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| 1. Saltpeter and the procedure of making it |
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| 2. The powder that is used in firing guns |
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| 3. The methods that are used in loading guns and shooting them accurately |
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| 4. Subterranean mines |
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| 5. The method of making fire tubes |
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| 6. The manner of making metal balls [that burst] |
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| 7. The methods of making tongues of fire |
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| 8. The methods of preparing fire pots |
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| 9. The method of making various compositions of artificial fires |
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| 10. Methods of constructing girandoles |
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| Concerning the fire that consumes without leaving ashes, that is more powerful than any other fire, and whose smith is the great son of Venus |
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| Appendix A Figures from other sources |
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| Appendix B Weights and measures |
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| Appendix C List of editions of the Pirotechnia |
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| Appendix D Bibliography. |
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| Index |
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