Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556

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              attinet alijs aſſimile: quæ omnia iccirco tam longa bacilla habent ferrea, ne
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              ignis ligneum manubrium comburat. </s>
              <s id="N19D94">Porrò cùm iam ſtannum fuerit ex
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              catino effuſum, tum præfectus rationibus, & præſes fodinæ panes appen­
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              dant. </s>
              <s id="N19D9B">Magiſter uerò conto totum fornacis os perfringat: atque ex ea altero
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              conto uncinato & rutro ac raſtro quinquedenti cadmias & carbones extra
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              hat. </s>
              <s id="N19DA2">Contus ille non diſſimilis ſit altero uncinato, ſed maior & latior. </s>
              <s id="N19DA5">Rutri
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              uerò manubrium longum ſex pedes, ex dimidia parte ferreum exiſtat, ex di
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              midia ligneum. </s>
              <s id="N19DAC">Fornace autem refrigerata magiſter cadmias ad parietes ad­
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              huc
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              decutiat ſpatha quadrangula, longa digitos ſex, lata
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              ,
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              priore parte acuta: quæ teres manubrium habeat longum pedes quatuor,
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              dimidia ex parte ferreum, ligneum ex dimidia. </s>
              <s id="N19DBD">Atque hæc prima
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              ex
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              coquendarum ratio eſt. </s>
              <s id="N19DC6">Venæ autem auri & argenti diuites, quia plerunque
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              ex inæqualibus partibus conſtant, quorum aliæ ocyus, aliæ tardius liquan­
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              tur, tribus potiſſimum de cauſis non poſſunt alia ratione citius & commo­
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              dius excoqui: quarum una eſt: quoties os fornacis oppilatum conto aperi­
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              tur, toties excoctor poteſt conſiderare
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              uena nimis lente uel cito lique­
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              ſcat, an ſparſim feruens non coeat in unum: primo modo uena tardius exco
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              quitur non ſine maiore impendio: altero metallum, cum recrementis permi
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              ſtum, ex fornace effluit in catinum, in quod recoquendum rurſus impenſa
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              facienda eſt: tertio
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              ignis ardore conſumitur. </s>
              <s id="N19DE1">His uerò incommodis
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              hæc remedia ſunt: ſi uena lente liqueſcit aut non coit, oportet aliquam por­
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              tionem ad additamenti, quod uenam liquefacit, pondus adijcere: ſi nimis
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              cito liqueſcit, aliquam de eo detrahere. </s>
              <s id="N19DEA">Altera cauſa eſt: toties miſturam au­
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              ri cum plumbo, uel argenti cum eodem, quod ſtannum nominatur, experi­
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              ri poſſumus, quoties ea ex fornace, conto aperta, effluxerit, & in catino reſe­
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              derit: quod experimentum nos docet de miſtura auro uel argento ne ſit di­
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              uitior facta, cùm os fornacis aut ſecundo recluditur aut tertio: an debilis &
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              uiribus carens nullum amplius aurum uel argentum ſorbuerit. </s>
              <s id="N19DF7">Etenim ſi di
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              uitior facta fuerit, aliqua plumbi portione ad eam adiecta uires eius refici de
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              bent: ſi non, ex catino eſt effundenda ut aliud plumbum recens imponi
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              poſſit. </s>
              <s id="N19E00">Tertia cauſa de tribus eſt: quando quidem fornacum os, cum uenæ
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              cæteris rationibus excoquuntur, ſemper patet, anteaquam auri uel argenti
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              diuites, quæ eiuſmodi ſunt ut diutius repugnent & reſiſtant ignis ardori, ca
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              lefiant & liquentur, additamenta facile liqueſcentia ex fornacibus effluunt. </s>
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              Sequitur igitur, ut aliqua
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              uenarum pars aut comburatur aut cadmia
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              commiſceatur: quo modo interdum uenarum maſſulæ, prorſus non lique­
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              factæ, in cadmia ſolent inueniri: contra cùm eædem ore fornacis ad tempus
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              clauſo excoquuntur, neceſſe eſt ipſas & additamenta ſimul coqui & permi­
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              ſceri. </s>
              <s id="N19E19">Quanquam enim additamenta citius quàm uenæ liqueſcunt, tamen ea
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              liquefacta, quia ſunt in fornace concluſa, uenam quæ non facile liquatur, li­
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              quefaciunt & cum plumbo permiſcent. </s>
              <s id="N19E20">Id enim combibit aurum uel argen
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              tum non aliter ac plumbum candidum uel nigrum, in catino liquefactum,
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              ſorbet aliud non liquefactum, cùm in ipſum coniectum fuerit. </s>
              <s id="N19E27">Si uerò lique
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              factum non liquefacto ſuperfunditur, id, quia undique defluit, ſimiliter non
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              liquefacit. </s>
              <s id="N19E2E">Ex his igitur omnibus ſequitur uenas auri uel argenti diuites </s>
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