Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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Eyn Nützlich Bergbüchlin.
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veins and ores, published at the beginning of the 16th century. </
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büchlin von allen Metal
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indications upon the title page, but the last line in the book reads:
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Gedruckt zu Erffurd durch
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Johan Loersfelt,
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1527. Another edition in our possession, that of “Frankfurt am Meyn”,
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1533, by Christian Egenolph, is entitled
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Bergwerk und Probierbüchlin,
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etc., and contains,
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Probierbüchlein
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(referred to later on), and a few
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recipes for assay tests. </
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from Daniel, a skilled miner, to Knappius, “his mining boy”. </
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this title are all anonymous, we are convinced, largely from the statement in the Preface of
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De Re Metallica,
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that one Calbus of Freiberg was the original author of this work. </
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says: “Two books have been written in our tongue: the one on the assaying of mineral sub
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stances and metals, somewhat confused, whose author is unknown; the other ‘On Veins’,
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of which Pandulfus Anglus is also said to have written,
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although the German book was written
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by Calbus of Freiberg, a well-known doctor; but neither of them accomplished the task he had
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” He again refers to Calbus at the end of Book III.
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Nützlich Bergbüchlin.
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says: “Calbus
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Fribergius, so called by Agricola himself, is certainly no other than the Freiberg doctor,
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Rühlein von C(K)albe.” There are also certain internal evidences that support Agricola's
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statement, for the work was evidently written in Meissen, and the statement of Agricola that
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the book was unfinished is borne out by a short dialogue at the end of the earlier editions,
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active citizen of Freiberg, having been a town councillor in 1509, burgomaster in 1514, a
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mathematician, mining surveyor, founder of a school of liberal arts, and in general a physician.
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