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AngusPodgorny: Jun 3, 2004; Please to be restful, it is only a puffin that has from the puffin place outbroken.

Found Sound posted:

On a slightly different note, can anyone recommend some books on medieval/renaissance mercenaries? It seems like a fascinating era of warfare, from what little I gleaned from wikipedia. The condottieri in Italy especially.

I thought John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy by William Caferro was really good, especially if you're interested in the political aspects.

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AngusPodgorny: Jun 3, 2004; Please to be restful, it is only a puffin that has from the puffin place outbroken.

End Of Worlds posted:

Can anyone recommend me anything on alchemy?

I'm about halfway through Alchemy by E.J. Holmyard and it seems like a good overview. It's less about alchemy and more about the alchemists themselves though, with brief bios of the influential alchemists, who they worked for, who they were influenced by, what real things they discovered, etc. It touches on things like the Emerald Table, mercury/sulphur, and the apparatus used enough to give context, but if your interest is mainly in what exactly they did this probably isn't the right book, but unfortunately it's the only one I've (partly) read.

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