Christoph Bartels
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226439686
- eISBN:
- 9780226439709
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226439709.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This article focuses on the production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz Mountains of Germany from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization. It offers a detailed account of ...
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This article focuses on the production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz Mountains of Germany from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization. It offers a detailed account of innovations in mining and metallurgy in the region and highlights the metallurgical ventures of many ingenious experts who are not well known in the history of science, but who contributed to the development of early modern sciences such as geology, chemistry, and mineralogy. This group of experts included Lazarus Ercker, Heinrich Albert von dem Busch, Claus von Gotha, Daniel Flach, Caspar Illing, Carl Zumbe, Christoph Sander, and Georg Winterschmidt. This article argues that mining and metallurgy during the early modern period relied heavily on land surveying, stratigraphy, ore prospecting, assaying, data collection, and mathematical data processing, in addition to the writing of technical instructions and treatises. This article also looks at the development of smelting works at Goslar during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and the introduction of gunpowder blasting as a mining innovation.Less
This article focuses on the production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz Mountains of Germany from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization. It offers a detailed account of innovations in mining and metallurgy in the region and highlights the metallurgical ventures of many ingenious experts who are not well known in the history of science, but who contributed to the development of early modern sciences such as geology, chemistry, and mineralogy. This group of experts included Lazarus Ercker, Heinrich Albert von dem Busch, Claus von Gotha, Daniel Flach, Caspar Illing, Carl Zumbe, Christoph Sander, and Georg Winterschmidt. This article argues that mining and metallurgy during the early modern period relied heavily on land surveying, stratigraphy, ore prospecting, assaying, data collection, and mathematical data processing, in addition to the writing of technical instructions and treatises. This article also looks at the development of smelting works at Goslar during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and the introduction of gunpowder blasting as a mining innovation.
William Stuart Nance
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813169606
- eISBN:
- 9780813169644
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813169606.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter covers operations from each army crossing the Rhine until the end of the war in May 1945. It highlights the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket as well as the fighting in the Harz Mountains. ...
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This chapter covers operations from each army crossing the Rhine until the end of the war in May 1945. It highlights the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket as well as the fighting in the Harz Mountains. It also discusses the role of cavalry in protecting the truck-mounted infantry, allowing very mobile operations. It shows how cavalry led the U.S. First and Ninth Armies to the Elbe, and the Seventh and Third Armies to Czechoslovakia and Bavaria.Less
This chapter covers operations from each army crossing the Rhine until the end of the war in May 1945. It highlights the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket as well as the fighting in the Harz Mountains. It also discusses the role of cavalry in protecting the truck-mounted infantry, allowing very mobile operations. It shows how cavalry led the U.S. First and Ninth Armies to the Elbe, and the Seventh and Third Armies to Czechoslovakia and Bavaria.
