The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio
Subtitle: the classic sixteenth-century treatise on metals and metallurgy
By: translated from the Italian with an introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Mineral industries -- Early works to 1800.; Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.; Metal-work -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-466) and index.
Translation of: De la pirotechnia.
Reprint. Originally published: Pirotechnia. New York : Basic Books, 1959.