Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) |
Germany |
German philosopher and experimenter who, like his English counterpart Roger
Bacon,
wrote about black powder and how to make
it. A recipe appears in his De mirabilis mundi (On the Wonders of the World):
Flying fire: Take one pound of sulfur, two pounds of coals of willow, six pounds of saltpeter; which three may be ground very finely into marble stone; afterwards ... some may be placed in a skin of paper for flying or for making thunder. |
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