Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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seen in the library of the town of Bejar. </
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the glossary given by Sir John Pettus in his translation of Lazarus Erckern's
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work on assaying. </
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“but I cannot enlarge my observations upon
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any more words, because the printer calls for what I did write of a metallick
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dictionary, after I first proposed the printing of Erckern, but intending
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within the compass of a year to publish Georgius Agricola,
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De Re Metallica
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(being fully translated) in English, and also to add a dictionary to it, I
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shall reserve my remaining essays (if what I have done hitherto be approved)
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till then, and so I proceed in the dictionary.” The translation was never
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published and extensive inquiry in various libraries and among the family
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of Pettus has failed to yield any trace of the manuscript.
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