Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              liquetur. </s>
              <s id="N1A501">Pòſt maſſa à recrementis purgata conijcitur in catinum, & aurum
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              atque argentum à plumbo ſeparantur: aurum denique ab argento aqua illa ua­
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              lenti ſecernitur. </s>
              <s id="N1A508">Aut puluis, qui conſtat ex talis ramenti metallici lotura col­
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              lecti & præparati libra, ſcobis æris elimatæ quadrante, pulueris
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              , qui
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              uenas liquefacit, libris duabus, coquitur donec liqueſcat. </s>
              <s id="N1A513">Miſtura refrigera­
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              ta denuo in puluerem reſoluitur, torretur, lauatur: quo modo fit puluis cæ­
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              ruleus: cuius & argenti & pulueris
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              , qui uenas liquefacit, ſingulorum
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              libra, plumbi libræ tres, æris quadrans, ſimul coquuntur donec liqueſcant. </s>
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              Deinde maſſa, ut proxima, tractatur. </s>
              <s id="N1A524">Aut puluis, qui fit ex talis ramenti me­
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              tallici lotura collecti & præparati libra, halinitri ſelibra, ſalis quadrante co­
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              quitur uſque dum liqueſcat. </s>
              <s id="N1A52B">Miſtura refrigerata denuo teritur in puluerem:
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              cuius libra argenti liquefacti libræ quatuor
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              . </s>
              <s id="N1A534">Aut puluis, qui
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                citur</expan>
              ex id genus
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              libra, ſulfuris libra, ſalis ſeſquilibra, ſalis ex arida ui
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              ni fece facti triente, æris
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              ſulfure reſoluti in
                <expan abbr="puluerẽ">puluerem</expan>
                <expan abbr="triẽte">triente</expan>
              , coquitur do nec
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              liqueſcat. </s>
              <s id="N1A551">Poſtea plumbo recoquitur: &
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              à reliquis metallis ſeparatur. </s>
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              Aut puluis, qui habet id genus ramenti libram, ſalis libras duas, ſulfuris ſe­
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              libram, ſpumæ argenti libram, coquitur & ex eo conflatur aurum. </s>
              <s id="N1A55E">His & ſi­
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              milibus modis ramentum aurum in ſe continens, extra
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              excoqui de­
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              bet, ſi uel paucum, uel ualde diues erit. </s>
              <s id="N1A569">Si uerò multum fuerit, aut pauper, in
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              fornace: magis uerò uena quæ non teritur in puluerem: præſertim cùm eius
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              copiam auraria ſuppeditauerint. </s>
              <s id="N1A570">Sed ramentum auri particeps cum ſpuma
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              argenti & molybdæna permiſtum, adiecta ferri ſquama excoquatur in for­
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              nace, cuius os ad tempus clauditur, aut in prima uel
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              , cuius os ſemper
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              patet: quo modo mox ex auro & plumbo fit miſtura, quæ in ſecundas for­
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              naces inferatur. </s>
              <s id="N1A57F">At pyritæ uel cadmiæ, quæ aurum in ſe continet, duæ par­
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              tes uſtæ conijciantur in unam non uſtam & ſimul excoquantur in tertia for
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              nace, cuius os ſemper patet,
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              ex eis panes: qui ſæpius cremati recoquan
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              tur in fornace cuius os ad tempus clauditur, uel in alijs duabus, quarum os
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              ſemper patet: quo modo plumbum ſorbet aurum, ſiue purum fuerit, ſiue ar
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              gentoſum, ſiue æroſum: quæ miſtura etiam in ſecundas fornaces inferatur. </s>
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              Pyrites uerò, uel alia auri uena cum multa materia, quæ igni
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              è for
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              nace euolat, permiſta excoquatur cum lapide, ex quo conflatur ferrum, ſi is
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              in promptu fuerit. </s>
              <s id="N1A59C">Sex autem partes talis pyritæ, uel auri uenæ in puluerem
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              reſolutæ & cribratæ, quatuor lapidis, ex quo ferrum conflatur, item
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                nuti</expan>
              , tres calcis aqua reſtinctæ permiſceantur, & aqua madefiant: ad quas ad
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              ijciantur partes duæ & dimidia panis, qui aliquid æris in ſe continet: & re­
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              crementorum pars una & dimidia: ſed tot panum
                <expan abbr="fragmẽta">fragmenta</expan>
              , quot alueus ca­
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              pit, inijciantur in fornacem: deinde res permiſtæ & recrementa. </s>
              <s id="N1A5B1">Cùm uerò
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              iam media catini pars liquoribus, qui è fornace defluxerunt, referta fuerit,
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              tunc primò
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              detrahantur: deinde panes ex pyrite conflati: poſtre
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              mò miſtura æris, & auri, & argenti, quæ in fundo reſidet: ſed panes leniter
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              toſti cum plumbo recoquantur, fiantque panes qui in alias officinas inferan­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="N1A5C2">Miſtura uerò æris & auri ac argenti
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              torreatur, ſed etiam ipſa cum pa
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              ri portione plumbi recoquatur: & quidem in catino: atque
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              panes
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              multo magis quam iam dicti æris & auri diuites. </s>
              <s id="N1A5D1">Verùm ut miſtura auri & </s>
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