> On Sep 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Tanya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> To this end I have been reading Mircea Eliade's The Forge and the Crucible,
> which is most enlightening on the subject, particularly chapter 5, Rites and
> Mysteries in Metallurgy. Eliade makes references to a book entitled La
> tranvaux publics et les mines dans les traditions et les superstitions de
> tous les pays by Paul Sebillot. I would like to read this myself but sadly
> cannot find an English translation. Might anyone know of one, or even have
> access to an unauthorised translation that hasn't been published?
I am an unabashed believer that academic texts ought to be freely available and translatable.
If all else fails, here’s a rough and ready solution: if you can get a copy of Sebillot, cut it off at the spine, feed it through a scanner into PDF and then into one of the translation services such as Google, you ought to be able to have a reasonable facsimile of the original in English. I have had similar problems with translating Hassenfratz La Siderotechnie into English as my 4 years of high school french is in no way capable of handling early 19th century techno-French.
Lyle Browning, RPA
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> On a similar vein (sorry!) J. Frank Dobie's classic Coronado's Children:
> Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure in the Old Southwest (originally
> published in the UK as Lost Mines of the Old West) is now available as an
> Epub and as a Kindle (it's cheaper on Google Play). As well as a host of old
> mine and treasure seeking stories it includes some interesting details of
> various pamphlets etc that Dobie collected on such subjects as engaging
> "Mephistopheles" as a guide to mineral riches - the usual nonsense! Most
> entertaining. Hopefully other Dobie classics will follow onto e-reader.
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> Best wishes
>
> Tanya
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