It is not known how the hoovers became aware of agricolas book nor why they decided to translate it into english. Rolling became more common around mid and late 16th century to produce gold and silver strips used for. It was also an important chemistry text for the period and is significant in the history of chemistry. Our members are dedicated and scrupulous professionals who endeavor to maximize the value of your minerals exploration efforts. Accessible book, early works to 1800, metal trade, metallurgy, mineral industries, paleontology, prelinnean works, zoology. The book is set in a world of antiquarian booksellers, echoing his previous work, the flanders panel. The work gives an overview of everything that has to do with the mining industry. They delayed publication for a year and the book came out after his death. The result was a manual, aimed not at people who would have to dig up ores, but. Because of its strength, beauty, and prestige, metal figured prominently in many medieval contexts, from the military and utilitarian to the architectural and liturgical. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
Baueragricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing the work several years before that. Agricolas spectacular book, which is illustrated by 292 woodcuts, is one of the first reference works on mining and metallurgy. Nov 14, 2011 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola. Written over 450 years ago by agricola this beautiful book contains wonderful pages printed from intricate. It was translated into english in 1912 by herbert 31st. Biringuccio was essentially a metalworker, and his book dealt with smelting, refining, and assay methods methods for determining the metal content of ores and covered metal casting, molding, core making, and the production of such commodities as cannons and castiron cannonballs. Corsos investigation leads him to seek out two copies of a. Edgar rickard, author and publisher, respec tively, of the original volume. It was translated into english in 1912 by herbert 31st president of the united states and lou hoover.
The delay is thought to be due to the books many woodcuts. To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, im or document to embed the entire object, paste this html in website to link to this page, paste this link in email, im or document to embed this page, paste this html in website. As we agreed with the hoovers in part 1, and as agricola. They have a very draftmanlike quality almost like some doing isometric drawings. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. We specialize in applying the latest advancements of geochemistry research to mineral exploration. The first book can be removed, and the two sentences can be merged. The business current operating status is cancelled and the businesss principal activity is management consultancy services general. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication.
Conrad, whose nickname in former years was pauper, suddenly became rich from the silver mines of mount jura, known as the firstum. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola bauer and agricola being respectively the german and latin words. The work covers the mining industry and everything related to it and ranks as one of the great scientific works of the renaissance. Explore this photo album by book studiesallard pierson amsterdam on flickr. Publication was delayed, however, until the illustrations that supplement and ornament the work were completed. It has been made avail able through the kind permission of honor able herbert c.
That the appearance of this work was eagerly anticipated is evidenced by a letter from george fabricius to valentine hertel. It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to the midsixteenth century. See all 20 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The work is a systematic, illustrated treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy. After dealing with ancient mineral remedies during his medical studies and subsequent employment in the mining city of joachimsthal bohemia, agricola devoted himself to the research of mining. With a typed letter signed by herbert hoover laid in.
O livro continuou sendo o texto autoridade sobre a. Agricola wrote his book in the scholarly language of that time, latin. The sentence part regarding the incorrect attribution to agricola can be shortened. Bauer agricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing the work several years before that.
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