Old Pyrotechnia book.

[HAuCl4]

http://books.google.com/books?id=ruBbKRKGeOwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Vannoccio+Biringuccio&ei=ypspScTbE4yYyATt_7y2Bw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Does anybody have a .pdf version of this book?

Thanks in advance.

 

[rusty]

http://books.google.com/books?id=ruBbKRKGeOwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Vannoccio+Biringuccio&ei=ypspScTbE4yYyATt_7y2Bw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Does anybody have a .pdf version of this book?

Thanks in advance.

PDF Version not available from archive.org or open books, try a torrent.

 

[jimdoc]

I checked through most of my old hard drives and thumb drives and couldn't find it.I also searched for it the same way I found The Boy Chemist pdf. By searching the title with pdf after it.I found some partial pdf's of the Pyrotechnia (the intro and index) but no full book.

Jim

 

[HAuCl4]

Thanks Jim. Similar results here.

 

[jimdoc]

I just looked through my hard copy and found the receipt,it cost me a whole .99 cents plus $3.50 shipping.You just have to keep your eyes open for it on Ebay,or Amazon and Barnes and Noble.I have found some very good deals on used books listed in the stores websites.

Jim

 

[HAuCl4]

Not so easy from outside the US, but thanks for the suggestions. I'll try to get a hard copy sent to a friend's address in the US.

 

[nickvc]

Not so easy from outside the US, but thanks for the suggestions. I'll try to get a hard copy sent to a friend's address in the US.

Too true it cost me close on $200 for a hard copy of Hoke here in the UK.... :shock:
But hey worth every cent :lol:

 

[Harold_V]

Not so easy from outside the US, but thanks for the suggestions. I'll try to get a hard copy sent to a friend's address in the US.

Too true it cost me close on $200 for a hard copy of Hoke here in the UK.... :shock:
But hey worth every cent :lol:

Gasp!
Makes the $10 I paid for mine look like a real bargain!

I've promoted Hoke's book from the outset of my time here. Having no chemical background, and no education beyond high school, were it not for Hoke's book, I am sure that I would have never learned to refine. The knowledge contained within that book is adequate to get the most dense of individuals (such as me) on the right track. Armed with that knowledge, I've been shocked to find some offended by the recommendation to read Hoke. A real puzzle, at least from my perspective. :roll:

Harold

 

[HAuCl4]

Also looking for this one in .pdf format:

http://www.amazon.com/Divers-Arts-Theophilus/dp/0486237842/ref=pd_cp_b_1

 

[HAuCl4]

Another one, although this one seems to be "way out there"...and little to do with metals.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xBCqXNuy8YwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

edit: found this one

 

[jimdoc]

This is The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast that you can download pdf;

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924092287113

Jim

 

[HAuCl4]

This is The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast that you can download pdf;

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924092287113

Jim

Amazing how deep into "stuff" these guys went eh?. :shock:

 

[HAuCl4]

http://books.google.com/books?id=ruBbKRKGeOwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Vannoccio+Biringuccio&ei=ypspScTbE4yYyATt_7y2Bw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Does anybody have a .pdf version of this book?

Thanks in advance.

Still looking for this .pdf . It must not be very popular. :shock:

 

[Chumbawamba]

I prefer hard copies anyway:

http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi?author=&title=pirotechnia+of+Vannoccio+Biringuccio&keyword=&isbn=&order=PRICE&ordering=ASC&binding=Any+Binding&min=&max=&exclude=&match=Y&dispCurr=USD&timeout=20&store=ABAA&store=Alibris&store=Abebooks&store=AbebooksAU&store=AbebooksDE&store=AbebooksFR&store=AbebooksUK&store=Amazon&store=AmazonCA&store=AmazonUK&store=AmazonDE&store=AmazonFR&store=Antiqbook&store=Biblio&store=BiblioUK&store=Bibliophile&store=Bibliopoly&store=Booksandcollectibles&store=Half&store=ILAB&store=LivreRareBook&store=Powells&store=Strandbooks&store=Wbm&store=ZVAB

The cheapest one showing up when I searched is a 1966 MIT edition for $10. Buy it, shear off the binding, run it through a scanner (with OCR for good measure), and upload it to Scribd. Give back, man!

 

[HAuCl4]

I prefer hard copies anyway:

http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi?author=&title=pirotechnia+of+Vannoccio+Biringuccio&keyword=&isbn=&order=PRICE&ordering=ASC&binding=Any+Binding&min=&max=&exclude=&match=Y&dispCurr=USD&timeout=20&store=ABAA&store=Alibris&store=Abebooks&store=AbebooksAU&store=AbebooksDE&store=AbebooksFR&store=AbebooksUK&store=Amazon&store=AmazonCA&store=AmazonUK&store=AmazonDE&store=AmazonFR&store=Antiqbook&store=Biblio&store=BiblioUK&store=Bibliophile&store=Bibliopoly&store=Booksandcollectibles&store=Half&store=ILAB&store=LivreRareBook&store=Powells&store=Strandbooks&store=Wbm&store=ZVAB

The cheapest one showing up when I searched is a 1966 MIT edition for $10. Buy it, shear off the binding, run it through a scanner (with OCR for good measure), and upload it to Scribd. Give back, man!

You guys are spoiled in the U.S. with superb mail service...and inmediately assume that the same is prevalent in other parts of the world... :roll:

I have a copy collecting dust in the closet of a house of a friend of mine in Miami. I will eventually get it!. 8)

 

[Chumbawamba]

You guys are spoiled in the U.S. with superb mail service...and inmediately assume that the same is prevalent in other parts of the world...

You're absolutely right, but I never promised you a rose garden, just a way to get a copy of the book

Why don't you have your friend mail it to you? That's cheaper than a plane ticket and you don't have to go through the pervert machines (i.e. full body scanners). And in case you're out in the remote bush or something, don't you have big cities or even small depots near you with post offices that can accept the package until you make it back out of the scrub?

 

[HAuCl4]

I have lost more mail than I care to remember. I only do person-to-person or courier. And couriers are expensive and subject to custom clearings...which is all more hassle than the urgent pleasure of reading a book. Someone will bring it to me, soon enough, or I'll get the .pdf in the meantime. I do not need the book right now. It'd just be nice to have it. 8)

 

[Chumbawamba]

I'd certainly like to get a copy, and right away. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. What a fabulous tome.

 

[HAuCl4]

I'd certainly like to get a copy, and right away. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. What a fabulous tome.

Yes. I believe it is the first comprehensive metallurgy book ever written, condensing all the knowledge of the ancients up to that date. A masterpiece, even by today's standards of technological prowess. :shock:

 

[HAuCl4]

De la Pirotechnia is considered to be the first printed book on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and published in Venice in 1540. The author was Vannoccio Biringuccio, a citizen of Siena, Italy.

(The second book on metallurgy, De re metallica, was written in Latin by Georgius Agricola, and published in 1556.)

Both books were translated into English in the 20th century. The translation of Pirotechnia was by Cyril Stanley Smith, a senior chemist on the Manhattan Project, and Martha Teach Gnudi. Both books were illustrated with extensive, beautiful woodcuts. The translation of De la Pirotechnia has more extensive notes and footnotes.

In 1912, the first English translation of De Re Metallica was privately published in London by subscription. The translators were Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer (and later President of the United States), and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, a geologist and Latinist. The translation is notable not only for its clarity of language, but for the extensive footnotes, which detail the classical references to mining and metals, such as the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, the history of mining law in England, France, and the German states; safety in mines, including historical safety; and known minerals at the time that Agricola wrote De Re Metallica.


I guess we are not the first humans to become obsessed with metals... :lol:

Merry Christmas!. :lol: