About “De la pirotechnia”
De la Pirotechnia is one of the first printed books on metallurgy published in Europe. Written in Italian by Vannoccio Biringuccio, a citizen of Siena, it was first published in Venice in 1540. Biringuccio died before the book was released. Additional editions were published in 1550, 1558, 1559, and 1678. A French translation by Jacques Vincent was published in 1556, 1572, and 1627. Parts of the book were also translated into Latin, English, and Spanish during the 1550s and 1560s, often without proper credit. A second metallurgy book, De re metallica, was written by Georgius Agricola in Latin and published in 1556. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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