Please consider this a first draft.
In 1960 John H. Partington published History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. It's an exhaustive study that has become increasingly controversial. The author's language is English, but he quotes many passages in both Latin and Greek, large sections of which are left untranslated. Most of the Latin and Greek is easy to translate.
Partington was a chemist who wrote among other works, a massive history of chemists and chemistry. He obviously had a strong classical background. Unlike H. W. L. Hime he does not mount an almost purely philological argument of a Chinese introduction of potassium nitrate. Most of the latter's work involves Classics. particularly Lucian.
I'm posting references as best I can including what should be for most a helpful Wikipedia article on Greek Fire.
As I stated in the title of the thr3ead I do not know where to post this. I would like to give it maxum exposure because I believe that it could lead to a discussion both productive and lively.
https://books.google.com/books?id=30IJLnwpc8EC&hl=en
https://books.google.com/books?id=ly3rAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:"Henry+William+Lovett+Hime"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVrce5wMXlAhVJip4KHSpDARUQ6AEwBHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
In 1960 John H. Partington published History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. It's an exhaustive study that has become increasingly controversial. The author's language is English, but he quotes many passages in both Latin and Greek, large sections of which are left untranslated. Most of the Latin and Greek is easy to translate.
Partington was a chemist who wrote among other works, a massive history of chemists and chemistry. He obviously had a strong classical background. Unlike H. W. L. Hime he does not mount an almost purely philological argument of a Chinese introduction of potassium nitrate. Most of the latter's work involves Classics. particularly Lucian.
I'm posting references as best I can including what should be for most a helpful Wikipedia article on Greek Fire.
As I stated in the title of the thr3ead I do not know where to post this. I would like to give it maxum exposure because I believe that it could lead to a discussion both productive and lively.
https://books.google.com/books?id=30IJLnwpc8EC&hl=en
https://books.google.com/books?id=ly3rAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:"Henry+William+Lovett+Hime"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVrce5wMXlAhVJip4KHSpDARUQ6AEwBHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
