It was a great and very educational read! Thank you so much! Have you written about ancient navigation and mapmaking in the past? Was always curious on how people got around and scouted territories!
This week on the blog: wootz in South Asia and cast iron in China - other ways iron and steel were produced in the pre-modern world!https://acoup.blog/2020/11/06/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-addendum-crucible-steel-and-cast-iron/ …
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I have not, by my doktorvater (read: dissertation advisor) is actually the leading expert on that very question! Check out: Richard Talbert, Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (2010) and Roman Portal Sundials (2017)
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Interesting article, thank you! I wonder if you have a sense of why the Wootz process didn't spread westward into the Middle East and into Europe? You talk about some Islamic writers & the process spreading in the 12th century, but did it go farther from there? Or spread earlier?
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The technical hurdles are pretty high. You need very hot furnaces and then you need crucibles that can withstand that very high heat. That said, the Indian crucible method does seem to get to Europe in the 1700s, by which time the furnaces are hot enough to do it.
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Great call plugging your twitter in the post this week - got you at least one new follow!
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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