Simon Sturtevant, Metallica (1612)

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Date
22 May 1612
Author
Book title
Metallica. Or The Treatise of Metallica. Briefly comprehending the Doctrine of diuerse new Metallicall Inuentions, but especially, how to neale, melt, and worke all kinde of mettle-oares, Irons and Steeles with Sea-coale, Pit-coale, Earth-coale and Brush-fewell. Also a Transcript of his Maiesties Letters Pattents of Priuiledge, granted vnto Simon Sturteuant for the said Metallicall businesses, for one and thirty yeares
Publication place
London
Publisher
George Eld
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
metallurgy
Summary
Many logical definitions
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Metallica mentioned in the petition, is thus defined. Metallica is an Art or Inuention, shewing how diuerse things and Materia's, now made and atteined vnto, in a very chargeable sort, after the ordinary way, may be made and atteined to after a more cheaper manner, and as with the helpe of common instruments: so more especially by diuerse new deuised Metallicall instrumentes and meanes.
From these instruments, the Art is generally called Metallica. (pp. 203)
STC
23411
Other editions
John Rovenzon, Treatise of Metallica, STC 21355 (1613); and Sturtevant's cancelled patent at British Library 727.c.14
Facsimiles
Sturtevant, Simon. Metallica / Simon Sturtevant. The English experience, no. 764. Amsterdam and Norwood, N.J.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and W. J. Johnson, 1975. view record
Criticisms
Cooper, William. William Cooper's A Catalogue of Chymicall Books, 1673-88: A Verified Edition. Ed. Stanton J. Linden. New York and London: Garland, 1987. 102. view record