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Published
Reaktion Books, June 2003
ISBN
9781861891730
Format
Softcover, 356 pages
Dimensions
22.8cm × 13.3cm

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This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe, in the process making brass cannon and silver coin available to the ambitious Habsburg emperors, thereby underpinning their quest for European domination.

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