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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 1669 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century.

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• Published on: 2001
• Format: HTML
• Binding: Digital
• 4 pages

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In Europe, more than any other part of the world, industrial manufacturing and technology has developed from metallurgy, the mining and smelting of metals. Advances in metallurgy have been at once the cause and effect of European technological superiority. In the Renaissance the extraction and smelting of ore was a strongly traditional industry, and Vanoccio Biringuccio's book De la pirotechnia libri X (Ten Books of a Work in Fire, 1540), like George Agricola's De Re Metallica Libri XII (Twelve Books on Metals, 1556), did not announce any dramatic inventions....