Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              <s>WRITINGS NOT RELATED TO MINING, INCLUDING LOST OR UNPUBLISHED
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              WORKS.</s>
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              Latin Grammar.
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              <s> This was probably the first of Agricola's publications, the full title
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              to which is
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              Georgii Agricolae Glaucii Libellus de prima ac simplici institutione grammatica.
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              <s>Excusum Lipsiae in Officina Melchioris Lottheri. </s>
              <s>Anno
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              MDXX. (4to), 24 folios.
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              16
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              There is
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              some reason to believe that Agricola also published a Greek grammar, for there is a letter
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              from Agricola dated March 18th, 1522, in which Henicus Camitianus is requested to send a
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              copy to Stephan Roth.</s>
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              Theological Tracts.
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              <s> There are preserved in the Zwickau Rathsschul Library
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              copies
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              by Stephan Roth of two tracts, the one entitled,
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              Deum non esse auctorem Peccati,
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              the
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              other.
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              Religioso patri Petri Fontano, sacre theologie Doctori eximio Georgius Agricola salutem
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              dicit in Christo.
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              <s> The former was written from Leipzig in 1522, and the latter, although
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              not dated, is assigned to the same period. </s>
              <s>Both are printed in
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              Zwei theologische Abhandlungen
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              des Georg Agricola,
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              an article by Otto Clemen,
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              Neuen Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte,
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              etc.,
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              Dresden, 1900. There is some reason (from a letter of Fabricius to Melanchthon, Dec. </s>
              <s>8th,
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              1555) to believe that Agricola had completed a work on the unwritten traditions concerning
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              the Church. </s>
              <s>There is no further trace of it.</s>
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              Galen.
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              <s> Agricola appears to have been joint author with Andreas Asulanus and J. B.
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              <s>Opizo of a revision of this well-known Greek work. </s>
              <s>It was published at Venice in 1525,
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              under the title of
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              Galeni Librorum,
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              etc., etc. </s>
              <s>Agricola's name is mentioned in a prefatory
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              letter to Opizo by Asulanus.</s>
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              De Bello adversus Turcam.
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              <s> This political tract, directed against the Turks, was written in
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              Latin and first printed by Froben, Basel, 1528. It was translated into German apparently
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              by Agricola's friend Laurenz Berman, and published under the title
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              Oration Anrede Und
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              Vormanunge . . . . widder den Türcken
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              by Frederich Peypus, Nuremberg, in 1531
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              (8vo), and either in 1530 or 1531 by Wolfgang Stöckel, Dresden, 4to. </s>
              <s>It was again printed
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              in Latin by Froben, Basel, 1538, 4to; by H. Grosius, Leipzig, 1594, 8vo; it was included
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              among other works published on the same subject by Nicholas Reusnerus, Leipzig, 1595;
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              by Michael Lantzenberger, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1597, 4to. </s>
              <s>Further, there is reference by
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              Watt to an edition at Eisleben, 1603, of which we have no confirmation. </s>
              <s>There is another
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              work on the subject, or a revision by the author mentioned by Albinus
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              as having been,
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              after Agricola's death, sent to Froben by George Fabricius to be printed; nothing further
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              appears in this matter however.</s>
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              De Peste.
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              <s> This work on the Plague appears to have been first printed by Froben,
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              Basel, 1554, 8vo. </s>
              <s>The work was republished at Schweinfurt, 1607, and at Augsburg in
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              1614, under various editors. </s>
              <s>It would appear from Albinus
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              that the work was revised by
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              Agricola and in Froben's hands for publication after the author's death.</s>
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              De Medicatis Fontibus.
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              <s> This work is referred to by Agricola himself in
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              De Natura
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              Eorum,
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              in the prefatory letter in
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              De Veteribus et Novis Metallis;
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              and Albinus
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              quotes a
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              letter of Agricola to Sebastian Munster on the subject. </s>
              <s>Albinus states (
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              Bergchronik,
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              p. </s>
              <s>193)
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              that to his knowledge it had not yet been published. </s>
              <s>Conrad Gesner, in his work
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              Excerp­
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              torum et observationum de Thermis,
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              which is reprinted in
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              De Balneis,
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              Venice, 1553, after
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              Agricola's
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              De Natura Eorum,
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              states
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              concerning Agricola
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              in libris quos de medicatis fontibus
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              instituerit copiosus se dicturum pollicetur.
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              <s> Watts mentions it as having been published in 1549,
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              1561, 1614, and 1621. He, however, apparently confuses it with
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              De Natura Eorum.
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              <s> We
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              are unable to state whether it was ever printed or not. </s>
              <s>A note of inquiry to the principal
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              libraries in Germany gave a negative result.</s>
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              De Putredine solidas partes humani corporis corrumpente.
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              <s> This work, according to
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              Albinus was received by Fabricius a year after Agricola's death, but whether it was published
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              or not is uncertain.
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              Castigationes in Hippocratem et Galenum.
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              <s> This work is referred to by Agricola in the
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              preface of
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              Bermannus,
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              and Albinus
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              mentions several letters referring to the preparation
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              of the work. </s>
              <s>There is no evidence of publication.</s>
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              Typographia Mysnae et Toringiae.
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              <s> It seems from Agricola's letter
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              to Munster that
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              Agricola prepared some sort of a work on the history of Saxony and of the Royal Family
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