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GEORGIUS AGRICOLAt

DE RE METALLICATRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OFwithBiographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices uponthe Development of

1556

Processes, Geology,

Mining Methods, Metallurgical Mineralogy & Mining Lawtimes to the i6th Century

from the

earliest

BY

HERBERT CLARK HOOVERA. B. Stanford University, IVIember American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Sociiti des Ing6niiurs Civils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc., etc.

AND

LOU HENRY HOOVERA. B. Stanford University,

Advancement of

Science,

Member American Association for The National Geographical Society,etc., etc.

the

Ro^al Scottish Geographical Society,

MARINEBIOLOGICAL

LABORATORY

LIBRARYWOODSW.HOLE, MASS.H. 0.\.

1950

T>over 'Publications^ Inc,

NEW-o

Y V> LVI^v

Cum Priuilcgio Impcratoris in annos

& Galliarum Regis ad Sexenoium.

,

GEORGIVS FABRICIVSbrosMecallicos

IN LI'

georgii

AGRicobAsphio

lofophi prxflantinimi.

AD LECTORBJW.SIiiniat ignita

cognofcere fronte Chimajram,

Semicancm nympham/emibouemcp uirum:

Si centum capitumTitanem,totcp firrentcm

Sublimem manibus tela cruenta Gygcn:Si iuuat -^tneum penetrarc Cyclopis in antrum,

Atque alios, Vates quos peperere,metus:

Nunc placeat mecum do(flos euolucre libros, Ingcnium AGRi co lae quos dedit acre tibi,

Non hie uana tenet fufpenfam fabula mcntem;Sed preciun),utilitas multajegentis erit. Quidquid terra fiau,gremiocp recondiditimo,

Omne tibi multis eruit ante libris;Siuefluensfuperasultronitaturinoras,biueniat fiicilem feu magis arte ufam. Perpetui propri^s manant de fontibus amnes, Eftgrauis Albuneae (pontc Mephitis odon LethaiesfuntfpontefcrobesDicaearchidisorap, Et micat e media conditus ignis hu'mo. Plana Narifcorum cum tellus arfitin agro, Ter curua nondum falcc refecfia Ceres.

Nee dedit hoc damnum pafl:or,riec luppiterigne:VuJcani per feruperat ira folum.Terrifico aura foras erumpens,incita motu,Sazpefacit montes,ante ubi planauia eft, Haecabftrufa cauis,imoc^ incognita fiindo, Cognita natura fepe mere duce.

Artehominum,inlucem ueniunt quoc^ multa manu(^ Terne multiplices eJfFodiunturopes, Lydia ficnitrum profert,Isfandia fulfur,

Acmodo Tyrrhenusmittitalumen ager,Succina,qu5 trifido fubit ascjuor Viftula comu, Pifcantur Codano corpora feruaiinu.

Quid memorcm regum prcciofa infignia gemmas, Marmorax^ cxcelfis ftrucfra fub aftra iugis CNillapides,nil faxamoronfunt pulchramctalla,

Crceietuis opibus daraJVIyda'atuis,

acerMacedo terra Creneidefodit, Norm'nepermutans nomina prifca fuo. AtnuncnonuUiscedit GERMAfTiA terris,QuEe'qpet

4

Terra

Terra ferax hominum,tcrraot

by so exact a plan, and the Latins Caurus

assert that theis

and those wind

one and the same.

BOOKfirst

III.

59

Again, between Septentrio (north wind) and the Subsolanus (east wind), theto the right of Septeitrio (north wind)is is

Gallicns;

;

then Supernas

;

then;

Aquilo, whichlastly,

the middle one of these fiveleft of

next comes Boreas

Cartas to the

Siibsolamts (east wind).

and Here again, those who

do not consider the winds to be in so great a multitude, but say there arebut twelve winds inall,

or at the

most fourteen,

assert that the

wind

called

South.