Until now, little has been known about the gunpowder production process in medieval Castile. The present work aims to present and analyse a manuscript treatise, from the time of the… Click to show full abstract
Until now, little has been known about the gunpowder production process in medieval Castile. The present work aims to present and analyse a manuscript treatise, from the time of the Catholic Monarchs, in the Casa del Infantado section of the collections of the Archivo Historico de la Nobleza, dedicated to the shotgun, as well as to cast light on the technical processes related to the process, saltpetre and sulphur refining and charcoal composition.
               
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