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Berthold Laufer's 1915 essay, issued as an offprint from the journal T'oung-pao, traces what Chinese writers believed about asbestos and compares those ideas with Greek, Roman, Syrian, Arab and medieval European accounts. He sets out what the mineral is (fibrous tremolite, actinolite and chrysotile) and works through ancient reports such as Strabo's description of napkins woven from Euboean stone and cleaned by throwing them into fire.
- Author
- Berthold Laufer
- Published by
- E. J. Brill, Leiden
- Series
- T'oung-pao, 2nd series, vol. XVI, no. 3 (offprint)
- Date
- 1915
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 10005 · asbestosclaims.law/library/10005
- Rights
- Published in 1930 or earlier; in the public domain in the United States.
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Berthold Laufer. “Asbestos and Salamander, An Essay in Chinese and Hellenistic Folk-Lore.” 1915. T'oung-pao, 2nd series, vol. XVI, no. 3 (offprint). E. J. Brill, Leiden. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 10005. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/10005.
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