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Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica |  | Author: Herbert Clark Hoover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 676
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0766131971
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780766131972
ASIN: 0766131971
Publication Date: January 18, 2003
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1912. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy and mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century.
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Review from Wikipedia August 3, 2009
Samuel Dwight Johnson (Istanbul)
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloging the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 250 years after its publication.
In 1912, the first English translation of De Re Metallica was privately published in London by subscription. The translators were Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer (and later President of the United States), and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, a geologist and Latinist. The translation is notable not only for its clarity of language, but for the extensive footnotes, which detail the classical references to mining and metals, such as the Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the history of mining law in England, France, and the German states; safety in mines, including historical safety; and known minerals at the time that Agricola wrote De Re Metallica.
Subsequent translations into other languages, including German, owe much to the Hoover translations, as their footnotes detail their difficulties with Agricola's baroque vocabulary.(Wikipedia)
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