Metallurgy

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This paper reviews and discusses the origins of metallurgy. According to the paper, metallurgy has been around for centuries on many different continents, in many different cultures and used in a vast array of various methods. According to the paper, one of the first 'modern' metallurgists was a German called Georgius Agricola.

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"One of the first 'modern' metallurgists was a man by the name of Georgius Agricola, who actually began his career as a small-town teacher of Latin and Greek. This quickly became to boring for him causing him to travel to Italy were he would spend three enlightening years of study, particularly in the field of medicine. "
"It was probably while studying there that he became familiar with the works of the Roman physician, Galen "who in the course of his descriptions of his visits to Cyprus to collect materials for his medicines incidentally mentions some metallurgical processes for the sublimation of zinc ores to produce zinc oxide to act as a salve" (Craddock 1994 pg 67)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aitchison, L., (1960), A History of Metals, London, Macdonald & Evans Ltd.
• Alpern, SB., (2005), Did they or Didn't They Invent It? Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa, History In Africa, Vol. 32, issue none, pp. 41-94
• Craddock, PT., (1994), Agricola, de re metallica: A landmark in the history of metallurgy, Endeavor, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 67-73
• Gordon, RB., (1996), American Iron 1607-1900, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press
• Tylecote, RF., (1992), A History of Metallurgy (2nd ed), London, The Institute of Materials

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