1
MOSELLANUS, PETRUS
VI
MOSES.
Bitumen
582
Lead
391
Refining gold
399
Rod of Horeb
38; 40
MÜLLER, MAX.
Ancient iron
421
NAEVIUS.
Money
20
NASH, W. G.
Rio Tinto mine
149
NAUMACHIUS.
Gold and silver
8
NECKAM, ALEXANDER
Compass
57
NEWCOMEN, THOMAS
149
NICANDER.
On coal
34
NICIAS.
Sosias and slaves of
25; 25
Nützlich Bergbüchlin
610; XXVI; XXVII
Alluvial gold
75
Bismuth
110; 433
Compass
57; 129
Ore-deposits
44
Ore-shoots
43
Veins
43; 46; 73
OLYMPIODORUS (alchemist)
XXVII; XXX
OPPEL, VAN (see VAN
OPPEL).
ORUS CHRYSORICHITES (alchemist)
XXVII; XXVIII
OSTHANES (alchemist)
XXVII; XXIX
OTHO THE GREAT
6
OTHO, PRINCE
6
OVID.
Mining censured by
7
PANDULFUS ANGLUS
XXVI
PANTAENETUS.
Demosthenes' oration against
27; 83
PANTHEUS, AUGUSTINUS (alchemist).
XXVII
PARACELSUS
XIV; XXX
Divining rod
38
Zinc
112; 409
PARIS, MATTHEW (See
MATTHEW PARIS).
PEBICHIUS (alchemist)
XXVII; XXVIII
PELAGIUS (alchemist)
XXVII
PENNENT, THOMAS
570
PERCY, JOHN.
Cementation
454; 459
Cupellation
465
Liquation
491
Parting with antimony
451; 452
PEREGRINUS, PETRUS.
Compass
57
PETASIUS (alchemist)
XXVII; XXVIII
PETRIE, W. M. F.
Egyptian iron
421
Mt. Sinai copper
402
PETTUS, SIR JOHN
XVI; 283
PHAENIPPUS.
Demosthenes' oration against
27; 83
PHAETON'S SISTERS
35
PHERECRATES.
XXVI
PHILEMON.
Riches
7
PHILIP OF MACEDONIA
27
PHILIP. PETER
282
PHILLIPS, J. A.
410
PHILO.
Lost work on mining
XXVI
PHOCION.
Bribe of Alexander
9; 15
PHOCYLIDES.
Gold
7
PHOTIUS
279
Fire-setting
118
PINDAR.
Wealth
19; 252
PIUS II. POPE.
Alum maker
570
PIZARRO, F
V
PLATEANUS, PETRUS
XIV
PLAUTUS.
Gold
10
PLINY (Caius Plinius Secundus)
XXVI; 608
Alluvial mining
331; 333
Alum
566
Amalgamation
297
Amber
35
Antimony
428
Argol
234
Arrhenicum
111
Asbestos
440
Bitumen
33; 583
Brass
410
British miners
83
Cadmia
112
Cementation
459
Chrysocolla
560
Copper flowers and scales
233; 538
Copper smelting
404
Cupellation
466
Drainage of Spanish mines
149
Electrum
458
Fire-setting
118
Galena
476
Glass
585; 586
Hannibal's silver mine
42; 42
Hoisting ore
157; 157
Iron
11
Jew-stone
115
Lead
392
Lemnian earth
31
Litharge
475; 466; 501
Lodestone
115
Manganese (?)
586
Metallurgical appliances
355
Misy
573
Molybdaena
466; 476
Naphtha
583
Nitrum
560
Ore-dressing
281
Outcrops
65
Pompholyx
396
Protection from poison
215
Quicksilver
433
Red-lead
232
Roasting
267
Sal-ammoniac
560
Salt from wood
558
Silver-lead smelting
392
Sory
573
Spodos
396
Stannum
473
Tin, Spanish
412
Tophus
233
Touchstone
256; 253
Turfs in sluices
331; 332
Vena
43
Ventilation with wet cloths
210; 210
Verdigris
440
Vitriol
572
White-lead
440
PLUTARCH
25
PLUTO
216
POLYBIUS.
Ore washing
281
Silver-lead smelting
392; 465
POLYMNESTOR, KING OF THRACE.
Love of gold
9; 16
PÖRTNER, HANS
281
POSEPNY, FRANZ
53
POSIDONIUS.
Asphalt and naphtha
584
Drainage of Spanish mines
149
Silver from forest fires
36
PRIAM, KING OF TROY.
Gold mines of
26; 27
Probierbüchlein
612; XXVI
Amalgamation
297
Antimony
40
Assaying
220
Assay ton
242
Bismuth
433