Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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mark
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is divided into
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two hundred and eighty-eight
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grenlíns,
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and by the people of Nuremberg it is
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divided into two hundred and fifty-six
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pfennige.
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into eight
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unciae.
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uncia
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into four
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sicilici,
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the
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sicilicus
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into
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thirty-six
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siliquae.
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wish to assay alloys of silver and copper. </
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or 4
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sícílicí.
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sícilicus.
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into eleven hundred and fifty-two
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or two hundred and eighty-eight units of 4
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each, into which number
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our people also divide the
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bes,
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they thus make the same number of
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and both agree, even though the Venetians divide the
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into smaller
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divisions.</
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which metallurgists employ, and likewise the system of the lesser weights
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which coiners and merchants employ, when they are assaying metals and
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coined money. </
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of the larger weight with which they provide them
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selves when they weigh large masses of these things, I have explained in my
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work
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De Mensuris et Ponderibus,
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and in another book,
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De Precio Metallorum
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et Monetis.
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fluxes. </
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smaller balances, and when eight
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unciae
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(of the greater weights) are placed in
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one of its pans, and the same number in the other, it sustains no damage.
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is to be assayed; this is well able to carry one
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centumpondium
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