Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              thereof at the command of the Elector and sent it to him when finished, but it was never
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              published as written by Agricola. </s>
              <s>Albinus, Hofmann, and Struve give some details of letters
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              in reference to it. </s>
              <s>Fabricius in a letter
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              dated Nov. </s>
              <s>11, 1536 asks Meurer to send Agricola
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              some material for it; in a letter from Fabricius to Meurer dated Oct. </s>
              <s>30, 1554, it appears
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              that the Elector had granted Agricola 200 thalers to assist in the work. </s>
              <s>After Agricola's
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              death the material seems to have been handed over to Fabricius, who made use of it (as he
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              states in the preface) in preparing the work he was commissioned by the Elector to write,
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              the title of which was,
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              Originum illustrissimae stirpis Saxonicae Libri,
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              and was published in
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              Leipzig, 1597. It includes on page 880 a fragment of a work entitled
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              Oratio de rebus Gestis
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              Ernesti et Alberti Ducum Saxoniae,
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              by Agricola.</s>
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              <s>WORKS WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGIUS AGRICOLA.</s>
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              <s>The following works have been at one time or another wrongly attributed to Georgius
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              Agricola:—</s>
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              Galerazeya sive Revelator Secretorum De Lapide Philosophorum,
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              Cologne, 1531 and
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              1534, by one Daniel Agricola, which is merely a controversial book with a catch-title, used
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              by Catholics for converting heretics.</s>
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              Rechter Gebrauch der Alchimey,
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              a book of miscellaneous receipts which treats very
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              slightly of transmutation.
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              Chronik der Stadt Freiberg
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              by a Georg Agricola (died 1630), a preacher at Freiberg.</s>
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              Dominatores Saxonici,
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              by the same author.</s>
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              Breviarum de Asse
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              by Guillaume Bude.</s>
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              De Inventione Dialectica
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              by Rudolph Agricola.
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