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Bitumen and Petroleum in Antiquity

by: Forbes, R.J.

Price: 48,00 EURO

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Category: Ancient Technology / Science
Code: 12330
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Publication Date: 1936
Publication Place: Leiden
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 109
Book Condition: Very good

Bitumen and petroleum in antiquity

Author: R. J. Forbes

109 pages : illustrations, 2 maps (1 folded), tables ; 25 cm


Contents:
Nomenclature and classification
Where bitumens were found: Egypt and Africa, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Iran, Media, Caucasus and Parthia, Indus Valley, Europe
Collecting and refining bitumen
Applications of bitumen: Ancient mastics : their composition and preparation, bitumen as a building material, bitumen as a waterproofing medium, bitumen as a roadbuilding material in antiquity
Some minor applications of bitumen: Lighting and heating, paints and protective coatings, waterproofing with bitumen, bitumen as a cement and adhesive
Bitumens in magic, medicine, agriculture and mummification
Petroleum and Greek fire in warfare


"With 6 tables, 2 maps and 54 text-figures."


Subjects:
Aardolie
Alter Orient
Bitume Histoire
Bitumen
Bitumen History
Chemistry, Technical History
History
Oudheid
Petroleum
Petroleum History
Petroleum Refining
Petroleum history
Pétrole Histoire

 
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