Georg agricola de re metallica pdf

Georgius agricola 14901555 was a german mineralogist. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Baueragricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing. Born in 1494, he received a classical education at the universities of germany and italy, graduating from leipzig in 1518. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication.

Mar 20, 2020 georgius agricola, german scholar and scientist known as the father of mineralogy. This book is one of the most important and greatest scientific classics. He was friends with erasmus, who vigorously promoted. 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. Georg agricola oder georgius agricola, latinisiert aus georg bauer 24. While he describes, for the first time, scores of methods and. Translated from the first latin edition of 1556 with. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks.

And it should be added that agricola vehemently rejected slavery, endorsed social plans for the poor, and stated that mines should be operated in a 5day workweek with 3 shifts of 8 hours each per day. Courtesy of the burndy library, dibner institute for the history. Agricola describes how to build furnaces for smelting gold, silver, copper and lead ores. Publication date 1950 topics metallurgy, mineral industries. Basically all the shown equipment was current until few decades ago. This was written in the middle of the 16th century. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola bauer. Georgius agricola hand colored woodcuts to recto and verso of one leaf. He was the type of the learned humanist, the universal scholar of the renaissance. Long figures georg agricola 14941555, physician and humanist scholar, wrote that he wanted to understand and communicate metallurgy as a whole. But agricola was a teacher, philosopher and doctor as well as the worlds first industrial publicist. Publication date 1950 topics metallurgy, mineral industries publisher new york, dover publications.

But he was known to his contemporaries and is known to history as georgius agricola. Nov 14, 2011 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The book was published in 1556 by georgius agricola. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. That the appearance of this work was eagerly anticipated is evidenced by a letter from george fabricius to valentine hertel. Known as the father of mineralogy, he was born atglauchau in saxony. Born in the small town of glauchau, in the electorate of saxony of the holy roman empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. Georgius agricola, german scholar and scientist known as the father of mineralogy. Just as the ancient author columella had treated agriculture as a unified entity, and just as one. Baueragricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing the work several years before that.