Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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Recently Vannucci Biringuccio, of Sienna, a wise man
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experienced in many matters, wrote in vernacular Italian on the
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subject of the melting, separating, and alloying of metals.
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He
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touched briefly on the methods of smelting certain ores, and explained
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more fully the methods of making certain juices; by reading his
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directions, I have refreshed my memory of those things which I myself
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saw in Italy; as for many matters on which I write, he did not touch upon
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Badoarius, a Patrician of Venice, and a man of wisdom and of repute; this
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he had promised that he would do, when in the previous year he was at
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Marienberg, having been sent by the Venetians as an Ambassador to King
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Ferdinand. </
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metals, it appears to me all the more wonderful that so many alchemists have
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arisen who would compound metals artificially, and who would change one
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a man of high rank and station, and
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distinguished in all kinds of learning, has mentioned the names of many in
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his writings; and I will proffer more, but only famous ones, for I will limit myself
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and there are Hermes;
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Chanes; Zosimus, the Alexandrian, to his sister Theosebia; Olympiodorus,
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also an Alexandrian; Agathodæmon; Democritus, not the one of Abdera,
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but some other whom I know not; Orus Chrysorichites, Pebichius, Comerius,
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Joannes, Apulejus, Petasius, Pelagius, Africanus, Theophilus, Synesius,
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Stephanus to Heracleus Cæsar, Heliodorus to Theodosius, Geber, Callides
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Rachaidibus, Veradianus, Rodianus, Canides, Merlin, Raymond Lully,
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Arnold de Villa Nova, and Augustinus Pantheus of Venice; and three women,
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Cleopatra, the maiden Taphnutia, and Maria the Jewess.
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All these alchemists
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employ obscure language, and Johanes Aurelius Augurellus of Rimini,
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