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Observations on Limes
C. W. Pasley
Hardback £23.00 $46.00
Publication date 1997
160 pages
ISBN 978 1 873394 27 4
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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.
Introduction
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Wingate
Michael Wingate's introduction is a helpful present day perspective on the work of lime undertaken in that period, and it shows how relevant development of such research is to conservation practitioners.
RIBA Conservation Forum
... a fascinating insight into developments using lime during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Building Engineer
Observations on Limes by Pasley is another [with Mortars and Cements] intensely researched analysis of experiments relating to the performance of various mortars, particularly hydraulic limes under various conditions.
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