De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556

Name: De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556
Author: Georg Agricola

by Georg Agricola

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

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2011-11-14

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Zoology -- Pre-Linnaean works Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800 Mineral industries -- Early works to 1800 Paleontology -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Georg Agricola

1494–1555

A Renaissance scholar with a practical eye, he helped turn mining and metallurgy into subjects that could be studied carefully and described clearly. His writing connected hands-on craft with early science and made him one of the founding figures of mineralogy.

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