Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              <s id="N1212D">GEORGII AGRICO­
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              LAE DE RE METALLICA
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              LIBER SEXTVS.</s>
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              <s id="N12136">Dixi de uenarum foſsionibus, de
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              ſtructu­
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              ris, de
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              ,
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              latentium,
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              ſub
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              ſtructionibus, de arte menſoris: nunc dicam primò
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              de ferramentis, quibus uenæ ſaxaque
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              : de
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              inde de uaſis in quæ conijciuntur globæ
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              , ſa
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              xorum,
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              , aliarumque
                <expan abbr="rerũ">rerum</expan>
                <expan abbr="foſsiliũ">foſsilium</expan>
              , ut uel ex
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              trahi uel euehi uel efferri poſsint: atque etiam de ua­
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              ſis aquarijs & canalibus: tum de diuerſi generis ma
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              chinis: poſtremò de malis
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              , quæ omnia
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              dum
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              accuratius,
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              multæ laborandi rationes
                <expan abbr="explicabũtur">explicabuntur</expan>
              . </s>
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              Ferramenta
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              ſunt ea, quæ proprio nomine metallici ſic appellant, cunei
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              præterea, laminæ, bracteæ, mallei, bacilla, conti, ligones, uerricula, batilla. </s>
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              Sed eorum, quæ proprio nomine
                <expan abbr="ferramẽta">ferramenta</expan>
              ſunt, quatuor exiſtunt formæ,
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              quæ ferè non figura, ſed longitudine uel craſsitudine inter ſe differunt: ete­
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              nim
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              pars ſumma eſt lata &
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              , ut malleo percuti poſsit: ima
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              in
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              deſinit, ut
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              &
                <expan abbr="uenarũ">uenarum</expan>
              duriciam acie diffindat: omnia quo
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              que præter
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              ſunt perforata. </s>
              <s id="N121B1">Primùm quidem, quo foſſores quotidie
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              utuntur, longum eſt dodrantem: latum, ſeſquidigitum: craſſum, digitum. </s>
              <s id="N121B6">In
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              ſecundo eſt eadem quæ in primo latitudo, itemque craſsitudo, ſed
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              eſt
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              duos dodrantes, quo foſſores duriſsimas quaſque uenas ſic findunt, ut rimis
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              fatiſcant. </s>
              <s id="N121C3">Tertium eandem quam ſecundum
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              aſſumit,
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              pau­
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              lò latius & craſsius eſt: quo fodiunt ſolum eorum puteorum, qui paulatim
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              colligunt aquas. </s>
              <s id="N121D2">Quartum ferè longum eſt palmos tres & digitum unum:
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              craſſum, digitos duos: ſuprema parte
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              digitos tres, media palmum, ima,
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              ut cætera cuſpidatum. </s>
              <s id="N121DD">Hoc uenas duriores
                <expan abbr="excindũt">excindunt</expan>
              . </s>
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                <expan abbr="Verũ">Verum</expan>
              primi ferramen
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              ti foramen à ſumma parte diſtat palmum: ſecundi & tertij, digitos ſeptem. </s>
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              Quodque uerò circa foramen hinc illincque extuberat, in id indunt manubri­
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              um ligneum: quod altera manu tenent, cùm ferramentum, ad ſaxa applica­
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              tum, malleo feriunt. </s>
              <s id="N121F4">Hæc ferramenta maiora uel minora, prout res hoc po­
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              ſtulat, fabricari ſolent. </s>
              <s id="N121F9">Omnia retuſa fabri ferrarij rurſus, quoad fieri poteſt,
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              acuunt. </s>
              <s id="N121FE">At cuneus plerunque longus eſt palmos tres & digitos duos: latus,
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              digitos ſex: ſumma parte ad palmi altitudinem craſſus digitos tres, deinde
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              paulatim tenuior, ut ima fiat acutus. </s>
              <s id="N12205">Sed lamina alta & lata eſt digitos ſex:
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              ſumma parte craſſa digitos duos, ima ſeſquidigitum. </s>
              <s id="N1220A">In bractea uerò eſt ea­
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              dem, quæ in lamina altitudo & latitudo, ſed admodum tenuis eſt. </s>
              <s id="N1220F">His omni
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              bus, ut proximo libro explicaui, utuntur cum uenas duriſsimas excindunt. </s>
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              Atque etiam cunei, laminæ, bracteæ modo maiores, modo minores ſolent
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              confici.</s>
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