An edition of De re metallica (1541)

Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII.

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An edition of De re metallica (1541)

Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII.

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This is a translation from the first Latin Edition of 1556, with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes. This book is a scientific classic based on field research.

Publish Date
Language
Latin
Pages
578

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Cover of: De re metallica
De re metallica
1986, Dover
in English
Cover of: Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII.
Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII.
1967, Culture et civilisation
in Latin
Cover of: De re metallica
De re metallica
1950, Dover Publications
in English - [New ed.]

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Edition Notes

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: Basileae : Froben, 1556.

Published in
Bruxelles
Genre
Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
De animantibus subterraneis.

Classifications

Library of Congress
TN617 .A25 1556a

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 578 p. :
Number of pages
578

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4323842M
LCCN
78364176

Excerpts

Translator's preface. There are three objectives in translation of works of this character: to give a faithful, literal translation of the author's statements; to give these in a manner which will interest the reader; and to preserve, so far as is possible the style of the original text. The task has been difficult in this work because, in using Latin, the author availed himself of a medium which has ceased to expand a thousand years before his subject had in many particulars come into being; in consequence he was in difficulties with a large number of ideasfor which there were no corresponding words in the vocabulary at his command, and instead of adopting into the text his native German terms, he coined several hundred Latin expressions to answer his needs.
Page i, added by Alberto Ramirez C..

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