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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2013 Jan 9, 11:44 -0800
Alex,
"I suppose it is called "quick silver" in English, and there are reasons
for this:-)"
"Quick" is an archaic word meaning "living" or "Alive", as in "the quick and the dead" and the term "quickening", meaning the first movement of a baby in its mother.
"I was thinking of silvering mirrors with an ancient recipe,
or for use in an artificial horizon, and hurried to buy while still
available:-)"
The method requires tin or silver foil. Silver leaf is too thin. If anyone has an antique tea chest in the attic, I would appreciated a few square cm of the tin foil lining, as I too would like to try the old method described by Lecky.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
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