Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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not read or heard of from persons upon whom I can rely. </
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neither seen, nor carefully considered after reading or hearing of, I have not
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struction, whether I enjoin things which ought to be done, or describe things
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which are usual, or condemn things which are done. </
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does not lend itself to elegant language, these books of mine are correspond
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ingly lacking in refinement of style. </
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metals sometimes lack names, either because they are new, or because, even
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if they are old, the record of the names by which they were formerly known
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must be pardoned, to describe some of them by a number of words combined,
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and to distinguish others by new names,—to which latter class belong
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Ingestor,
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Discretor, Lotor,
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Excoctor.
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Other things, again, I have alluded to by old
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Cisium;
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for when Nonius Marcellus wrote,
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this was
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the name of a two-wheeled vehicle, but I have adopted it for a small vehicle
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which has only one wheel; and if anyone does not approve of these names,
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let him either find more appropriate ones for these things, or discover the
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words used in the writings of the Ancients.</
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reasons, and, above all others, because metals have proved of the greatest
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value to you; for though your ancestors drew rich profits from the revenues
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of their vast and wealthy territories, and likewise from the taxes which were
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paid by the foreigners by way of toll and by the natives by way of tithes, yet
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they drew far richer profits from the mines. </
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towns have risen into eminence, such as Freiberg, Annaberg, Marienberg,
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Schneeberg, Geyer, and Altenberg, not to mention others. </
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stand anything, greater wealth now lies hidden beneath the ground in the
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mountainous parts of your territory than is visible and apparent above
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ground. </
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Chemnitz, Saxony,
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December First,
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1550.
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