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Best history book on swords, axes, maces etc ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8550314" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>See, I would still want <em>that</em> book to give me a fair overall impression of the things it discusses rather then getting bogged down in the weeds of being technically correct about every trivial ancillary detail. I'd just expect it with a goofy editorial voice.</p><p></p><p>Fundamentally any informative text without reams of citations has given up on trying to be completely technically accurate on details in favor of readability and, at best, giving non-experts a good overall impression of things, and not trying to distract them with minutia. If you are going to get irked by every missing obsidian scalpel you'd best steer clear of anything not published by a proper academic press.</p><p></p><p>I think the cited snippet on obsidian does an effective job of using the general rule that medical scalpels are not made of obsidian to illustrate the limitations of obsidian as a material in a limited number of words, without a lot of confusing details, while maintaining the expected editorial voice the cited title implies. Maybe you can do it better while also mentioning that obsidian scalpels do actually exist and are kind of cool, but without leading readers to think they are typical or common, while not sacrificing readability or distracting too much from the overall point, but it's not as easy as it seems from the wings just complaining that the thing you know about wasn't mentioned, so I'd recommend cutting the author some slack.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8550314, member: 6988941"] See, I would still want [I]that[/I] book to give me a fair overall impression of the things it discusses rather then getting bogged down in the weeds of being technically correct about every trivial ancillary detail. I'd just expect it with a goofy editorial voice. Fundamentally any informative text without reams of citations has given up on trying to be completely technically accurate on details in favor of readability and, at best, giving non-experts a good overall impression of things, and not trying to distract them with minutia. If you are going to get irked by every missing obsidian scalpel you'd best steer clear of anything not published by a proper academic press. I think the cited snippet on obsidian does an effective job of using the general rule that medical scalpels are not made of obsidian to illustrate the limitations of obsidian as a material in a limited number of words, without a lot of confusing details, while maintaining the expected editorial voice the cited title implies. Maybe you can do it better while also mentioning that obsidian scalpels do actually exist and are kind of cool, but without leading readers to think they are typical or common, while not sacrificing readability or distracting too much from the overall point, but it's not as easy as it seems from the wings just complaining that the thing you know about wasn't mentioned, so I'd recommend cutting the author some slack. [/QUOTE]
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