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Regular readers will know that I disliked the book “The rise of alchemy in fourteenth century England” by JOnathan Hughes, because it was innacurate and wrong. I recently found a review of it which matches my opinion.
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Regular readers will know that I disliked the book “The rise of alchemy in fourteenth century England” by JOnathan Hughes, because it was innacurate and wrong. I recently found a review of it which matches my opinion.
13 Wednesday Nov 2013
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Trevor S. Jennings wrote the Shire book title “Bellfounding”, published in 1988. He also self published a summary of his research on the history of bellfounding, “Temporaray site Bellfounding technology and the itinerant Bellfounders Technique”, in 2006 (hereafter abbreviated to TSBFT).
There is a great deal of useful information in the latter book, albeit not so well sorted by period. In one way this doesn’t matter, but I prefer to know how things change through time, because that makes it a proper history rather than a collection of anecdotes. Having said that, it is less of a problem with this topic because the technology stayed the same for hundreds of years; in fact I’ve come across a French foundry that still uses mould material recipes which are hundreds of years old. The Shire book though is another matter, containing a number of mistakes or, frustratingly, information which has been shortened and not properly explained.
One of the major issues I have with the Shire book is Continue reading
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