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.
An edition of De re metallica
(1541)
Georgii Agricolae ... De re metallica libri XII.
quibus officia, instrumenta, machinæ, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur; sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adjunctis latinis, germanicisq́ue appellationibus, ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clariùs tradi non possint. Quibus accesserunt hâc ultimâ editione, tractatus ejusdem argumenti, ab eodem conscripti, sequentes. De animantibus subterraneis. lib. I. De ortu & causis subterraneorum. lib. V. De natura eorum quæ effluunt ex terra. lib. IV. De natura fossilium. lib. X. De veteribus & novis metallis. lib. II. Bermannus sive De re metallica, dialogus. lib. I; cum indicibus diversis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus.
by Georg Agricola and Herbert Clark Hoover
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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.
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Early works to 1800, Metal trade, Metallurgy, Mineral industries, Paleontology, Pre-Linnean works, Zoology, Metallurgy, early works to 1800, Mineral industries, early works to 1800, Métallurgie, Ouvrages avant 1800, Mines, Industrie, Technique minière, Paléontologie, Zoologie, Ouvrages prélinnéens, Mining engineering, Mining engineering--early works to 1800, Metallurgy--early works to 1800Times
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Title vignette.
Imperfect: title page and first leaf of dedicatory epistle wanting; supplied in photostat from the copy in the John Crerar library; sig. 4 (blank?) wanting.
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