Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              <s>the 1st = 12
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              nummi
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              = 1
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              bes.
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              </s>
            </p>
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              <s>the 2nd = 6
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              nummi
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 3rd = 3
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              nummi
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 4th = 2
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              nummi
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 5th = 1
                <emph type="italics"/>
              nummi
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              = 24 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              each.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 6th = 12 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
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              each.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 7th = 6 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              each.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 8th = 3 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              each.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 9th = 2 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              each.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 10th = 1 units of 4
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae
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              each.</s>
            </p>
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              <s>And so with them, just as with our own people, the
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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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              </s>
              <s> Lastly, the Venetians divide
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              the
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              bes
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              into eight
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              unciae.
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              </s>
              <s> The
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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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              </s>
              <s> They make twelve weights, which they use whenever they
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              wish to assay alloys of silver and copper. </s>
              <s>Of these</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>the 1st = 8
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              unciae
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              = 1
                <emph type="italics"/>
              bes.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 2nd = 4
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              uncíae
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 3rd = 2
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              uncíae
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 4th = 1
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              uncíae
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              or 4
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              sícílicí.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 5th = 2
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              sícilícˊ.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 6th = 1
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              sícilicus.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 7th = 18
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              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 8th = 9
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 9th = 6
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 10th = 3
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 11th = 2
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              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>the 12th = 1
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              siliquae.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Since the Venetians divide the
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              bes
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              into eleven hundred and fifty-two
                <emph type="italics"/>
              siliquae,
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                <lb/>
              or two hundred and eighty-eight units of 4
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              siliquae
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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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              siliquae,
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                <lb/>
              and both agree, even though the Venetians divide the
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              bes
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              into smaller
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              divisions.</s>
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              <s>This, then, is the system of weights, both of the greater and the lesser kinds,
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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. </s>
              <s>The
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              bes
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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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              </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>There are three small balances by which we weigh ore, metals, and
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              fluxes. </s>
              <s>The first, by which we weigh lead and fluxes, is the largest among these
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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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              </s>
              <s>The second is more delicate, and by this we weigh the ore or the metal, which
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              is to be assayed; this is well able to carry one
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              centumpondium
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              of the lesser </s>
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