Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy and mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century.
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De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloging the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 250 years after its publication.In 1912, the first English translation of De Re Metallica was privately published in London by subscription. The translators were Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer (and later President of the United States), and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, a geologist and Latinist. The translation is notable not only for its clarity of language, but for the extensive footnotes, which detail the classical references to mining and metals, such as the Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the history of mining law in England, France, and the German states; safety in mines, including historical safety; and known minerals at the time that Agricola wrote De Re Metallica. Subsequent translations into other languages, including German, owe much to the Hoover translations, as their footnotes detail their difficulties with Agricola's baroque vocabulary.(Wikipedia)
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This is one of the great classics, richly illustrated with over 200 woodcuts, most full page. It was published in 1556 by Georgius Agricola. The English translation is by former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, and first Lady Lou. Virtually all of the equipment illustrated was current until a few decades ago. Agricola describes and illustrates such "modern" methods as amalgamation, and the use of spiral inclines for transporting heavy equipment from the surface to underground. The (unnamed) "books" (chapters) which compose the book could be titled: 1 The Social Impact of Mining; 2 Mine Management, Exploration, and Prospecting; 3 The Theory of Ore Deposits; 4 Mining Law; 5 Shaft Sinking, Drifting, and Surveying; 6 Mining Equipment, Haulage, Dewatering, Ventilation, and Hazards; 7: Assaying; 8 Beneficiation; 9 Smelting; 10 Separation of Gold from Silver and Silver Refining; 11 Separation of Gold and Silver from Copper and Iron and Copper Refining; 12 Industrial Mineral, Chemical, and Glass Production. The text is a bit dense, but is worth the trouble.
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Yes, it was inexpensive, but it is almost impossible to use because the font is small, the print is light, there is no information on the spine, and the margins at the spine are so narrow that the binding would have to be broken to make it readable. But it was a very cheap reprint, so I got what I paid for. I also complained to the publisher but got no reply.
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MANY persons hold the opinion that the metal industries are fortuitous and that the occupation is one of sordid toil, and altogether a kind of business requiring not so much skill as labour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ordinary strake, aqua valens, vena dilatata, half unciae, short strake, digit thick, mining prefect, venae profundae, furnace accretions, crude pyrites, vena cumulata, third long wall, minor triangle, novis metallis, small launder, triangular crucible, waxed circles, metalliferous material, cupellation furnace, second long wall, little launder, three double measures, arsenical sulphides, lingual equivalents, secondary cakes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Albertus Magnus, Diodorus Siculus, Mining Prefect, Basil Valentine, Mineralogia Cornubiensis, Novis Metallis, British Museum, Hamilton's Trans, Professor Gowland, Shoo King, United States, Dutch Mynerall, Edouard Ardaillon, French Company, Hendrie's Trans, King of Tyre, Lazarus Ercker, Lipari Islands, Monk Theophilus, New York, Presidential Address, William de Wrotham New!
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MANY persons hold the opinion that the metal industries are fortuitous and that the occupation is one of sordid toil, and altogether a kind of business requiring not so much skill as labour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ordinary strake, aqua valens, vena dilatata, half unciae, short strake, digit thick, mining prefect, venae profundae, furnace accretions, crude pyrites, vena cumulata, third long wall, minor triangle, novis metallis, small launder, triangular crucible, waxed circles, metalliferous material, cupellation furnace, second long wall, little launder, three double measures, arsenical sulphides, lingual equivalents, secondary cakes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Albertus Magnus, Diodorus Siculus, Mining Prefect, Basil Valentine, Mineralogia Cornubiensis, Novis Metallis, British Museum, Hamilton's Trans, Professor Gowland, Shoo King, United States, Dutch Mynerall, Edouard Ardaillon, French Company, Hendrie's Trans, King of Tyre, Lazarus Ercker, Lipari Islands, Monk Theophilus, New York, Presidential Address, William de Wrotham New!
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- The System of Mineralogy, Vol. 3: Silica Minerals by James D. Dana on page 29, page 106, and page 574
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- Bibliotheca Chemica, Part 2 by John Ferguson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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