Re: [Mid] [Fwd: Casting metal???]

Lori B. Murphy wrote:
> >Good Gentles All-
> >Do any of you kind souls know how metals were cast in the Middle Ages?
>
> For a period source, start with "The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio" a
> 16th century work. ISBN 0-486-26134-4

An excellent piece of reference material.

>From Amazon.Com:
> The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic
> Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy
> by Vannoccio Biringuccio
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> Paperback, 477 pages
> Published by Dover Pubns
> Publication date: February 1990
> Dimensions (in inches): 9.21 x 6.10 x .97
> ISBN: 0486261344

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