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This volume represents a small part of the book Sir Charles Pasley
wrote in 1838 which detailed his own experiments in the development
of artificial cement for military uses. Whilst much of the first
part of Pasley's work is of limited use to those involved with the
care of historic buildings today, the section that Donhead has
chosen to reprint provides a fascinating insight into the
developments using lime during the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Michael Wingate's excellent introduction to this edition
offers a helpful present day perspective of the work undertaken on
lime in that period, and shows how relevant such research is to
conservation practitioners and others currently specifying or
directly working with lime. Pasley has summarized and explained the
work and experiments of the most important authors of the period
including Smeaton (1791), Parker (1796), Vicat (1818 and 1828),
Treussart (1829), and Godwin (1836). Pasley's text reveals the
contrast between those, like Dr Higgins, who set out to achieve
exceptional performance from the simplest of limes, and others such
as John Smeaton, who understood how strength for the toughest
conditions could be achieved from impure limes.
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