De Re Metallica Georgius Agricola. Agricola De re metallica, tr. from the 1st Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical The same catalogues also mention an octavo edition of De Re Metallica, Wittenberg, 1612 or 1614, with notes by Joanne Sigfrido; but we believe this to be a confusion with Agricola's subsidiary works, which were published at this time and place, with such notes. "De Re Metallica" by Georg Agricola is a scientific publication written in the mid-16th century
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The same catalogues also mention an octavo edition of De Re Metallica, Wittenberg, 1612 or 1614, with notes by Joanne Sigfrido; but we believe this to be a confusion with Agricola's subsidiary works, which were published at this time and place, with such notes. De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals [Minerals]) is a book in Latin cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text
De Re Metallica, by Agricola by HOOVER, Herbert C. fine hardcover (1950) Argosy Book
While he describes, for the first time, scores oi methods and processes, no one would contend that they were discoveries or inventions of his own. The same catalogues also mention an octavo edition of De Re Metallica, Wittenberg, 1612 or 1614, with notes by Joanne Sigfrido; but we believe this to be a confusion with Agricola's subsidiary works, which were published at this time and place, with such notes. Originally published in 1556, Agricola's "De Re Metallica" was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation--what today we would call the "scientific method."
Agricola (14941555) . Book De Re Metallica, 1556. Book VIII. Extract the metals. De Re Metallica was a comprehensive treatise on the state of the art at the time of mining, refining, and smelting metals. "De Re Metallica" by Georg Agricola is a scientific publication written in the mid-16th century
Libropasión DE RE METALLICA, AGRICOLA (1556). The twelve books of Agricola's De re metallica (On Metals), illustrated with over 270 woodcuts, embraced everything connected with Renaissance mining and metallurgical industries, including administration, the duties of companies and workers, prospecting, mechanical engineering, ore processing and the manufacture of glass, sulfur and alum. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola ("Bauer" and "Agricola" being respectively the German and Latin words.