De Re Metallica.
by Agricola, Georgius
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0486600068
- ISBN 13
- 9780486600062
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Dover, New York, Later edition.. 0. Hardcover. Large 8vo. hardcover. 638pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to outer page edges. / Very good clipped d/w with crease on top edge. "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." (title page). .
Synopsis
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals) is a book cataloguing 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 180 years after its publication. Agricola had spent nine years in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, now in the Czech Republic. (Joachimsthal is famous for its silver mines and the origin of the word "Thaler.
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- Bookseller
- Dial a Book (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59477
- Title
- De Re Metallica.
- Author
- Agricola, Georgius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0486600068
- ISBN 13
- 9780486600062
- Publisher
- Dover, New York, Later edition.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- June 1, 1950
- Keywords
- metal mining metalurgy minerals rocks earth science
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