GEORGIUS AGRICOLA
DE RE METALLICA
TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1556
with
Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law from the earliest times to the 16th Century
BY
HERBERT CLARK HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Société des Ingéniéurs Civils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc., etc.
AND
LOU HENRY HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, The National Geographical Society, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, etc., etc.
1950
Dover Publications, Inc.
NEW YORK
TO
JOHN CASPAR BRANNER Ph.D.,
The inspiration of whose teaching is no less great than his contribution to science.
This New 1950 Edition of DE RE METALLICA is a complete and unchanged reprint of the transla− tion published by The Mining Magazine, London, in 1912. It has been made avail− able through the kind permission of Honor− able Herbert C. Hoover and Mr. Edgar
Rickard, Author and Publisher, respec− tively, of the original volume.
MAX−PLANCK−INSTITUT
FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE
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