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Vannoccio Biringuccio
1480-c. 1539
Italian engineer and metallurgist who produced De la Pirotechnia (1540)—the first comprehensive account of mining practices. Pirotechnia describes mining of m...
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Vannoccio Biringuccio
1480-1539
Italian Metallurgist
Although he had a tempestuous career in which he found himself embroiled in the political intrigue that characterized Renaissance Italy, Vannoccio ...
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The Italian mining engineer and metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480-1539) is famous for his important book, De la pirotechnica.Vannoccio Biringuccio was born in Siena, where he became embroiled i...
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Vanuccio Biringuccio was a sixteenth century pioneer in the field of metallurgy. He deviated from and discounted the centuries-old idea of alchemy and transmutation, that a particular (and as yet undi...
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