As another Lame Cherry exclusive on matter anti matter........
The first recorded use of gun powder is said to have been in the possession of the Aryans of India.
The inhabitants of India were unquestionably acquainted with its composition at an early date. Alexander is supposed to have avoided attacking the Oxydracea, a people dwelling between the Hyphasis and Ganges, from a report of their being possessed of supernatural means of defence: “For,” it is said, “they come not out to fight those who attack them, but those holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls;” and, when the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus overran India, they attacked these people, “but were repulsed with storms of thunderbolts and lightning hurled from above.”
William Greener. Gunnery in 1858 / Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms
But then Mr. Greener in his treatise finds an alchemist is England, in Friar Bacon, who had a unique interpretation to what the Israelites under Gideon possessed in their destruction of the Midianites.
...by which a city or an army may be destroyed, as was the case when Gideon and his men broke their pitchers and exhibited their lamps, fire issuing out of them with great force and noise, destroying an infinite number of the army of the Midianites.”
William Greener. Gunnery in 1858 / Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms
Roger Bacon, the friar, is thought to have invented gunpowder, being born in 1214 AD in the year of our Lord, and died in 1285, but having wrote the Epistles of the Secret of Arts, which is about manufacturing gunpowder.
His recipe was saltpetre with lura mon cap ubre and sulfur. The lura mon cap ubre is translated as carbonum pulvere which is ground charcoal, or the modern recipe of potassium nitrate in salt peter, sulfur and charcoal.
Almost 100 years later, the German monk, Schwartz in 1320 AD in the year of our Lord is noted to have invented it in Germany.
Bacon was a scholar of things Arabian, and the Arabs or Saracens are said by Arabs to have introduced gun powder to the Europeans. This now refocuses the point of gun powder in the Mideast and the north Indian area.
The exact verse of Gideon which predates all recorded history, states his army's pitchers were empty.
Judges 7:16
"And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers."
I do not discount this as anything but a victory of the Lord for Gideon and Israel, but what if the rendering that Friar Bacon assumed was more in line with the pitchers were not hiding lamps, but that the "lamps" within the pitchers were a fire caused by gun powder and the breaking of the lamps as in the form of grenades which terrified the enemy, just as Alexander the Great avoided the "Indians" who had strange weapons.
I conjecture in this, it is a fact that the displaced and exiled northern Israelites were extremely advanced due to Solomon's knowledge and they were a white people, and these peoples were Samarians or Samaryans as in Aryans of later Indian in interbreeding.
Could the source of this gun powder be Israelite and not as published Chinese, for these same white Scythians as they were later known are found buried all through northern China.
Did they actually create this art form of alchemy, lose it and then regain it with all the modern advancement to nuclear bombs.
Gun powder in it's black powder form has not changed since it was first created in the alchemy arts. This explanation by William Greener is worth a college degree and simplifies the entire process, for it is the potassium nitrate which is the power, as it is this oxygen reservior which releases all the energy causing the explosion.
"Nitre, or saltpetre, is strictly the essence of gunpowder. It is a triple compound of oxygen, nitrogen, and potassium. The chemical action of those elements on each other, and the play of affinities between them at a high temperature, occasion the immense effect produced by gunpowder on the application of fire or heat.
By universal consent, sulphur is included in the mixture, but it is not absolutely necessary for the “propellant power ;” for nitre and charcoal only will generate effects similar to the compound with sulphur. Gunpowder made without sulphur has, however, several bad qualities; it is not, on the whole, so powerful, nor so regular in its action; it is also porous and friable , possessing neither firmness nor solidity. It cannot bear the friction of carriage, and in transport crumbles into dust. The use of sulphur, therefore, appears to be not only to complete the mechanical combination of the other ingredients, but being a perfectly combustible."
It is fascinating in how this triad of power works. Potassium nitrate KNO3, houses the oxygen, the charcoal is the carbon or fuel, but it is the sulfur which regulates it so that it is regulated at a proper rate to create an even power release.
Gun powder is no great secret, for anyone can see Captain Kirk making it, and how to construct a homemade cannon. Who obtained the secret though is the interest of alchemy in how sulfur is the medium to keep the explosive functional in combined state and keep it functioning in altered state.
Yes the brimstone burns, but it is the rotting smell of hell which regulates the marriage of the two other principles.
No. Nitre. Charcoal. Sulphur.
#1 76· 00 14· 00 10· 00 Powder of Bâe.
#2 76· 00 12· 00 12· 00 „ Grenelle.
#3 76· 00 15· 00 9· 00 „ M. Morveau.
#4 77· 32 13· 44 9· 24 „ Ditto.
#5 77· 50 15· 00 7· 50 „ M. Keffault.
The first and third, after 200 discharges with the proof mortar, were declared the strongest, and the third proportions were adopted at the recommendation of the commissioners. Some few years elapsed, and the first, owing to its better keeping quality , was substituted, as it contained less charcoal, and a little more sulphur. The French Government having always been extremely impressed with the value of durability in gunpowder, they have since returned to their ancient proportions: 75 nitre, 121 / 2 charcoal, 121 / 2 sulphur.
The charcoal, the absorbent of moisture, being further reduced, and the sulphur, the preserving ingredient, being increased in the same ratio.
William Greener. Gunnery in 1858 / Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms
Fire and water in the same midst with the sulfur preserving the elastic fluid of carbonic acid.
The proportions, then, for gunpowder, by these considerations, will be those in which the carbon will just consume the oxygen of the nitre, and combine with the sulphur as much as will exactly saturate the potassium. This will be effected by an atom each of nitre and sulphur, and three atoms of carbon; or nitre 75· 5, charcoal 18· 8, and of sulphur 11· 8.
William Greener. Gunnery in 1858 / Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms
Amongst the brilliant discoveries of modern chemistry may be classed the development of the fact, that a chemical combination , to constitute the same compound, always takes place in definite and unalterable ratios. To select one example out of a multitude: one atom of carbon combining with two atoms of oxygen produces the gas; because more would answer no useful end.
I leave this at that.
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