Background
Bert Hall was born on January 6, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, United States, into the family of Bert T. and Ida Margaret (Merritt) Hall.
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The Technological Illustration of the So-Called 'Anonymous of the Hussite Wars
(The "Manuscript of the Hussite Wars' Engineer" is frequen...)
The "Manuscript of the Hussite Wars' Engineer" is frequently cited, but never studied in full. It is a compendium of drawings ans descriptions concerning military devices, various construction machines and mills. It is usually thought to depicz the state of technology in Germany about 1430. Bert S. Hall's treatement ofthis document ist the first complete, modern edition to appear, but it is prefaced by an extensive study of the work in relation to tis 15th century-milieu. This allows many misunderstandings to be corrected and our view of the manuscript to be entirely revised.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3920153936/?tag=2022091-20
1971
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
(Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the hi...)
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology -- and challenging past assumptions about Europe's "gunpowder revolution" -- Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe's lack of naturally occurring saltpeter -- one of gunpowder's major components -- to the limitations of smooth-bore firearms. Manufacturing cheap, reliable gunpowder proved a difficult feat, as did making firearms that had reasonably predictable performance characteristics.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801855314/?tag=2022091-20
1997
A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder
(For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourt...)
For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. The apparatus and materials used in World War I would have been familiar to our remote ancestors. In this classic work, first published in 1960, James Riddick Partington provides a worldwide survey of the evolution of incendiary devices, Greek fire, and gunpowder. Greek fire, a composition Partington believes was made of a distilled petroleum fraction and other ingredients (but not saltpetre), was most famously used in the sieges of Constantinople and the Crusades.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Greek-Fire-Gunpowder/dp/0801859549/?tag=2022091-20
1998
Bert Stewart Hall
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Bert Hall received his diploma in 1971.
Career
Bert Hall started his career as an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972 - 1977. Since 1977 he has been working as an associate professor of history at Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
As a scholar, he is a historian of technology and a medievalist. He is cross appointed to the Department of History and also to the Centre for Medieval Studies, and he can supervise interested students in either of those programs. He is also associated with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and the Museum Studies Program.
His recent scholarly work has come to focus on the way gunpowder developed at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. Bert's latest book, "Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe" is now available from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
(Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the hi...)
1997 -
A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder
(For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourt...)
1998 -
The Technological Illustration of the So-Called 'Anonymous of the Hussite Wars
(The "Manuscript of the Hussite Wars' Engineer" is frequen...)
1971 - The new Leonardo 1976
- On pre-modern technology and science 1976
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
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Bert married Darlene M. Kordich in October 1967, and they have two common children: Alexandra Marie and Heather Alyssa.
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Liberal party