De re metallica /

This new 1950 edition of "De Re Metallica" is a complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by The Mining Magazine,London, in 1912.Includes index. Originally published in 1556, Agricola's "De Re Mettallica" was the first book on mining to be based on field re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555 (Author)
Other Authors:	Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 (Translator), Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944 (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1950.
Edition:	New 1950 edition.
Subjects:	Agricola, Georg, > 1494-1555. > De re metallica. Agricola, Georg, > 1494-1555. Metallurgy > Early works to 1800. Mineral industries > Early works to 1800. Mines and mineral resources > Early works to 1800. Metallurgy. Metals. Minerals. Metallurgy Metals Minerals Métallurgie > Ouvrages avant 1800. Mines > Industrie > Ouvrages avant 1800. Métallurgie. Métaux. Minéraux. metallurgy. metal. mineral. Mines and mineral resources Mineral industries Engenharia Metalurgica E De Materiais. Mineracao. Mineralogia. Historia. Early works to 1800. Early works
Online Access:	Internet Archive, Boston Library Consortium

Table of Contents:

Biographical sketch
Translation of Books I-XII
I. Arguments against the art of mining art
II. The miner and the mining of veins
III. Veins and stringers and seams in the rocks
IV. The method of delimiting veins and the functions of the mining officials
V. The digging of ore and the surveyor's art
VI. The miners' tools and machines
VII. The assaying of ore
VIII. Rules for the work of roasting, crushing, and washing the ore
IX. Methods of smelting ores
X. The work of separating silver from gold, and lead from gold and silver
XI. Separating silver from copper
XII. Rules for manufacturing salt, soda, alum, vitriol, sulphur, bitumen, and glass
Agricola's works
Ancient authors on mineralogy, mining, metalurgy
Nomenclature to be adopted for weights and measures
Index.