Saltpeter

The Mother of Gunpowder

(Author) David Cressy
Format: HardCover
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The story of the science, the technology, the politics and the military applications of saltpeter - the vital but mysterious substance that governments from the Tudors to the Victorians regarded as an 'inestimable treasure'.

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
HardCover
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780199695751
Publish year:
2013
Publish date:
Jan. 10, 2013

David Cressy

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