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

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              cibus excoquunt: quorum rationes breuiter exponam. </s>
              <s id="N1A1BB">Carni uenam iſti­
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              us plumbi primò urunt: deinde malleis teretibus, ſed admodum latis, fran­
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              gunt &
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              : tum in duos humiles muros foci, qui eſt in fornace, ex
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              ſaxis, quæ iniurijs ignium reſiſtunt, & ambuſti in calcem non abeunt, facta
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              & concamerata imponunt ligna uiridia, eisque arida ſuperimponunt, atque in
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              ipſa uenam
                <expan abbr="conijciũt">conijciunt</expan>
              : quæ lignis incenſis ſtillat
                <expan abbr="plũbo">plumbo</expan>
              : quod defluit in ſub­
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              iectum focum decliuem: is ex puluere carbonum & terreno conſtat: inque eo
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              eſt magnus catinus, cuius dimidia pars ſubit ſub fornacem, dimidia ex ea ex
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              tat: in hunc influit plumbum: quod excoctor, recrementis & cæteris prius
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              rutro detractis, cochleari effundit in proximos catinos: ex quibus plumbeæ
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              maſſæ, poſtquam refrixerunt, extrahuntur. </s>
              <s id="N1A1DE">Fornacis autem tergo eſt fora­
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              men quadrang̀ulum, ut ignis plus flatus concipere, utque excoctor per id in
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              fornacem ſerpere, quoties res poſtulat, poſſit. </s>
              <s id="N1A1E5">Saxones quoque, qui
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              in colunt, uenam plumbi in fornace, furno non diſſimili, excoquentes ligna
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              per foramen, quod eſt in tergo fornacis,
                <expan abbr="imponũt">imponunt</expan>
              : quæ cùm uehementer ar­
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              dere cœperint, plumbum ex uena deſtillat in catinum: quem eo
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              ex­
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              cocto conto aperit: quo modo plumbum unà cum recrementis influit in al­
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              terum catinum ſubiectum: mox hæc detrahit. </s>
              <s id="N1A1FE">Poſtremò
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              maſſam
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              refrigeratam ex catino eximit. </s>
              <s id="N1A207">At Veſtofali ad decem
                <expan abbr="carbonũ">carbonum</expan>
              plauſtra ſic
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              accumulant in aliquo decliui montis loco, quò uallem attingit, ut cumulus
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              ſuperius fiat planus: cui ſtramina ad trium uel quatuor digitorum craſſitudi
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              nem inijciunt: quibus tantam uenam plumbi puram, quantam cumulus fer
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              re poteſt, ſuperinijciunt. </s>
              <s id="N1A216">Deinde carbones, cùm flauerit uentus, accendunt:
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              is urget ignem ut uenam excoquat: quomodo
                <expan abbr="plumbũ">plumbum</expan>
              deſtillans ex cumu­
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              lo effluit in uallis planiciem, latæque maſſæ, ſed non admodum craſſæ, fiunt:
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              in promptu autem ſunt aliquot uenæ plumbi
                <expan abbr="centũpondia">centumpondia</expan>
              : quam, ſi res be­
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              ne procedit, cumulo inſpergunt: maſſas illas latas, quod impuræ ſint, impo­
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              nunt lignis aridis, quæ ſuſtinent uiridia catino magno impoſita, eisque incen
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              ſis illas recoquunt. </s>
              <s id="N1A22D">Poloni uerò focis utuntur ex luto, quod lateres cin­
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              gunt, factis altitudine pedum quatuor: hi utrinque ſunt decliues. </s>
              <s id="N1A232">In ſuperiore
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              foci parte plana collocant magna ligna: eisque parua ſuperimponunt luto in­
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              ter ipſa interiecto: quibus tenuia lignorum reſegmina
                <expan abbr="ſuperinijciũt">ſuperinijciunt</expan>
              , atque eis
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              rurſus uenam plumbi puram, eamque lignis magnis
                <expan abbr="cõtegunt">contegunt</expan>
              : quibus incen­
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              ſis uena liqueſcit & defluit in ligna inferiora: ea cùm ignis etiam
                <expan abbr="cõſumpſe­rit">conſumpſe­
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                rit</expan>
              , materiam metallicam colligunt: ipſamque, ſi res poſtulauerit, iterum atque
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              iterum iſto modo excoquunt: ex qua tandem lignis, quæ catino magno ſu­
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              perimpoſita ſunt, ſuperiniecta conflantur maſſæ plumbeæ. </s>
              <s id="N1A24F">Recrementa ue
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              rò unà cum
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              lotura collectis in tertia fornace, cuius os ſemper patet. </s>
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              excoquuntur.</s>
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              <s id="N1A25E">C
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              arnorum fornax
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              A. A
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              lter murus humilis
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              B. L
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              igna
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              C. V
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              ena ſtillans
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              plumbo
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              D. C
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              atinus magnus
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              E. A
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              lij catini
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              F. C
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              ochlear
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              G. P
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              lumbeæ maſſæ
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                <lb/>
              H. T
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              ergi fornacis foramen quadrangulum
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              I. S
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              axonum fornax
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              K. F
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              oramen
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              in tergo fornacis
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              L. L
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              igna
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              M. C
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              atinus ſuperior
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              N. C
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              atinus inferior
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              O.
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              V
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              eſtofalorum excoquendi ratio
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              P. C
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              umuli carbouum
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              Q. S
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              tramina
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              R.
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              M
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              aſſa lata
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              S. C
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              atinus
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              T. P
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              olonorum focus
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              V.</s>
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