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Invention historian. I write *Age of Invention*, an email newsletter on the history of invention and economic history.
Edinburgh, Scotland ageofinvention.xyz Joined November 2008
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After more than two years of research in archives across Europe:

The malicious plots and international intrigues surrounding the most strategically important invention you’ve never heard of

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www.ageofinvention.xyz Age of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part I The story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it
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You have no idea how much English history - stuff we literally never knew before, including even high-political stuff - is to be found in the archives of other countries.
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Just ordered scans of about seven more Swedish travel diaries in England, most of them by industrial spies. All but one have never been used before, other than for a few small extracts.
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London in 1590, according to an anonymous poet:

"A new Paris for learning, a Hormuz for trade,
Another Rome in men, a second fabled golden land for metals."

(My translation from the Latin original; usually attributed to William Camden, but he credits it to "another")
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