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            7 ALESSANDRO UBERTAllI

A Spark that set the World on Fire

    9      VITTORIO CACCIANDRA

The Fascination of Fire Steels

  11      ALESSANDRO CESATI

Understanding Fire Steels

  13      CHAPTER ONE

Man and Fire:

From Prehistory to the Appearance of the Fire Steel

  17      CHAPTER TWO

Forms of the Fire Steel from its Origins to the Middle Ages

  25      CHAPTER THREE

The Great Age of the Fire Steel: from the 1 sth to the 19th Century

Types in the Western World

Types in the Eastern World

  39      CHAPTER FOUR

Fire Steel Accessories

  49      CHAPTER FIVE

The Fire Steel in Chivalry, Heraldry and Art

  55      PLATES

113      Catalogue

129      Bibliography

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Fire stells

Writer : Cacciandra V. Cessati A.

Editor : Umberto Allemandi

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Pub year : 1996

Pages : 121

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S : 21X31

Pictures : Oui

Includes colors : 296

Binding : Relié sous jaquette

Language : Anglais

ISBN : 88 422 0687 3

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Bibliography : oui

Index : -

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EAN : 9788842206873

Since the beginning of time, men have gazed at the heavens and wondered at the Prime Cause of the unleashed energy that with fiery flashes ignites woods and trees. It is easy to imagine the pride that filled the earliest human beings after they had overcome their fear and succeeded in taming the flame they took from those fires in the wild; with what care they nurtured and fed it. From then onwards, those capable of creating Eire knew they possessed a very precious tool. The conquest of energy by easily combustible Wood, then flint stones, pyrites and Lire steels, was the first great victory over the natural world.
 

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