[Sca-cooks] OT: Gunpowder,

[johnna holloway]

Well, it was as they say worth a shot, wasn't it.

johnna

James Prescott wrote:
>
> At 07:27 -0400 2001-08-06, johnna holloway wrote:
>
> > I suspect that there is a solid reason why the 1240 something dates
> > come up, and it maybe that there are Vatican records. Another
> > research angle would be to run this question from the other end
> > and go through the Chinese tech/sci lit that's now available in
> > English and see what that says.
>
> That line of investigation had occured to me.
>
> A check of the indexes in the 5 volumes of C. Ronin's condensation
> of J. Needham's _Science and Civilisation in China_ revealed nothing
> specific from Needham's point of view about how gunpowder might have
> made its way to the West.
>
> Thorvald
>
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