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SALAMANDERS HAIR [1 record]

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Record 1 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Asbestos Mining
OBS

First asbestos textiles were supposed to consist of [salamanders' hair], based on the fable that these animals were able to live in fire.

OBS

This story [started by Medieval alchemists] is wrong on almost every count (salamanders are NOT born in fires, salamanders do NOT have hair, and asbestos is a mineral, NOT a fiber) ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Mines d'amiante
OBS

L'utilisation de l'amiante remonte à la nuit des temps pour l'attrait de ses propriétés [...] Au XIIIème siècle, le célèbre navigateur Marco Polo découvre la laine de Salamandre, tissu incombustible et ainsi nommé par les croyances de l'époque faisant de la salamandre un être incombustible vivant dans le feu.

Spanish

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