近日,在铜都——江西省德兴市发现了北宋著名炼铜家张潜墓碑。 德兴富藏铜金属资源,铜的开采、冶炼具有悠久的历史。据《德兴县志》和该墓碑记载,张潜是北宋时期的德兴新营人。他根据前人长期的实践经验,总结出一套比较完整的胆铜(即海绵铜)提炼术,该技术是我国古代炼铜科技的一项重要发明,也是世界上最早的胆铜冶炼技术。张潜在其所著的《胆铜要略》一书中揭 Recently, Zhangdu tombstone of the famous Northern Song Dynasty copper smelter was found in the copper city of Dexing City, Jiangxi Province. Dexing rich copper metal resources, copper mining, smelting has a long history. According to “Dexing County,” and the tombstone records, Zhang Qian was a new camp in Dexing during the Northern Song Dynasty. Based on his predecessors’ long-term practical experience, he summed up a relatively complete distillation of bile copper (ie, sponge copper), an important invention of ancient copper refining technology in our country and the earliest bile copper smelting technology in the world. Zhang potential in its book, “Copper to be slightly” in a book