REAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757). L'Art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1722.
REAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757). L'Art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1722. 4° (254 x 186mm). 17 folding engraved plates by and after Ph. Simmoneau. (Browning to some quires, occasional spotting.) Half calf and blue speckled boards of c.1800, spine gilt, speckled edges (spine worn at foot, corners bumped). Provenance : indistinct early 19th-century signature on front cover. FIRST EDITION. Réaumur's work on converting iron into steel is the first reliable treatise on the metallurgy of ferrous metal. As Hoover states, this scientifically gifted Frenchman ‘revealed for the first time hitherto secret details of the process, and also came very close to the correct explanation of the nature of steel, that it is iron combined with a small quantity of carbon.’ The process of producing non-brittle cast iron is likewise described in his book, though his ideas received little attention before the 19th century. Hoover 677; Norman 1803; Wolf II, p. 530.
REAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757). L'Art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1722.
REAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757). L'Art de convertir le fer forgé en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1722. 4° (254 x 186mm). 17 folding engraved plates by and after Ph. Simmoneau. (Browning to some quires, occasional spotting.) Half calf and blue speckled boards of c.1800, spine gilt, speckled edges (spine worn at foot, corners bumped). Provenance : indistinct early 19th-century signature on front cover. FIRST EDITION. Réaumur's work on converting iron into steel is the first reliable treatise on the metallurgy of ferrous metal. As Hoover states, this scientifically gifted Frenchman ‘revealed for the first time hitherto secret details of the process, and also came very close to the correct explanation of the nature of steel, that it is iron combined with a small quantity of carbon.’ The process of producing non-brittle cast iron is likewise described in his book, though his ideas received little attention before the 19th century. Hoover 677; Norman 1803; Wolf II, p. 530.
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