…He traveled through Germany and Italy, acquiring knowledge of various technologies, especially metallurgy, and took charge of the manufacture and casting of weapons in Venice, Florence, Rome, and other cities. Biringuccio's only book, Pirotechnia, is one of the most representative metallurgical books of the 16th century, along with Agricola's De re Metallica. It consists of 10 volumes, and contains a wide range of content, starting with how to melt ore to extract metals, how to separate gold and silver, alloys, how to cast bronze (it describes in detail how to cast cannons, which had a great influence on subsequent military technology), coinage, type casting, plating, gunpowder and firearms. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Pirotechnia" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ドイツ,イタリアの各地を旅行していろいろな技術,とりわけ冶金に関する知識を身につけ,ベネチア,フィレンツェ,ローマなどで,造兵・鋳造の指揮をとる。 ビリングッチョの唯一の著書といわれている《火工術Pirotechnia》は,アグリコラの《デ・レ・メタリカ》とならんで16世紀を代表する冶金術書である。全10巻から成り,鉱石を熔解して金属を取り出す方法から始まり,金と銀の分離の方法,合金,青銅の鋳造法(大砲の鋳造法について詳細に記述されており,その後の軍事技術に大きな影響を与えた),造幣術,活字鋳造,めっき,火薬と火器など広範な内容を含んでいる。… ※「《Pirotechnia》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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