Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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men in discovering veins. </
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they say nothing and adhere to their opinion.</
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>Since this matter remains in dispute and causes much dissention
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amongst miners, I consider it ought to be examined on its own merits. </
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wizards, who also make use of rings, mirrors and crystals, seek for veins
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with a divining rod shaped like a fork; but its shape makes no difference
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in the matter,—it might be straight or of some other form—for it is not
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the form of the twig that matters, but the wizard's incantations
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which it would not become me to repeat, neither do I wish to do so. </
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Ancients, by means of the divining rod, not only procured those things neces
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sary for a livelihood or for luxury, but they were also able to alter the forms
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of things by it; as when the magicians changed the rods of the Egyptians
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into serpents, as the writings of the Hebrews relate
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; and as in Homer,
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Minerva with a divining rod turned the aged Ulysses suddenly into a youth,
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and then restored him back again to old age; Circe also changed Ulysses'
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companions into beasts, but afterward gave them back again their human
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; moreover by his rod, which was called “Caduceus,” Mercury gave
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