Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              num in foueam inijciat, eumque terreno puluere conſpergat: mox uaſculo in­
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              fundat aquam: ſcopis undique foueam uerrat: ijſdem eandem aquam
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              impellens in focum fornacis ipſum etiam uerrat: deinde puluerem miſtum
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              & madefactum in fornacem inijciat: iterumque ſcalarum gradibus
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              pilo in fornacem immiſſo puluerem tundat, ut focus fiat ſolidus. </s>
              <s id="N19AB3">Pilum
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              teres ſit & longum palmos tres: inferius latum digitos quinque, ſuperius tres
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              & dimidium. </s>
              <s id="N19ABE">Nam in metæ ſuperius reciſæ figuram formatum eſſe debet:
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              Manubrium pili teres
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              ſit pedes quinque, craſſum digitos duos & di­
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              midium. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Pilũ">Pilum</expan>
              præterea ſuperiore parte, qua in ipſo includitur
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              , cir
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              culo ferreo duos digitos lato cingatur. </s>
              <s id="N19AD5">Sunt qui eius loco utuntur duobus
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              pilis teretibus tam inferius quàm ſuperius latis digitos tres &
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              : ſunt
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              qui duabus ſpathis ligneis, ſed pila ſpathis præſtant. </s>
              <s id="N19AE0">Simili modo in fo­
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              ueam, quæ eſt extra fornacem, inijciat puluerem compoſitum & madefa­
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              ctum, eumque pilo tundat: in quam ferè completam rurſus conijciat pulue­
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              rem, atque eum ſurſum uerſus fiſtulam æneam pilo protrudat, ut ad digitum
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              ſub eius ore focus decliuis deſcendat in foueam catini: poſſitque metallum
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              defluere. </s>
              <s id="N19AED">Iteret autem eadem uſque dum fouea fuerit completa: quam mox
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              curuata lamina ferrea, longa palmos duos & totidem digitos, lata tres di­
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              gitos, ſuperius hebete, inferius acuta excindat, ut catinus fiat rotundus &
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              latus pedem, altus palmos duos, ſi centumpondium plumbi continere de­
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              bet: ſin libras tantum ſeptuaginta, latus palmos tres, altus æque ac prior pal
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              mos duos. </s>
              <s id="N19AFA">Foueam uerò exciſam rurſus tundat pilo æneo terete, altos di­
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              gitos quinque, lato totidem: cui ſit manubrium teres, curuatum, craſſum ſeſ­
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              quidigitum: aut altero pilo æneo, formato in figuram metæ ſuperius reci­
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              ſæ: cui impoſitus ſit turbo inferius reciſus, ut media pili pars manu prehendi
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              poſſit: quod altum ſit digitos ſex, inferiore parte latum digitos quinque, ſupe
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              riore quatuor: alij eius loco uſurpant ſpátham ligneam inferius latam pal­
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              mos duos & dimidium, craſſam unum. </s>
              <s id="N19B09">Catino præparato redeat ad forna­
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              cem, & oris utrique lateri ac ſuperiori eius parti lutum ſimplex illinat. </s>
              <s id="N19B0E">In
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                riorem</expan>
              uerò ponat
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              ,
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              inferius intinxit in
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              à carbonib. </s>
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                <expan abbr="reſolutũ">reſolutum</expan>
              :
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              quo cauere poterit ne lutum, foci puluerem ad ſe trahens, eum uitiet: tum in
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              os fornacis imponat bacillum rectum et teres, longum dodrantem, craſſum
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              digitos tres. </s>
              <s id="N19B2F">Poſtea ad lutum apponat carbonem ita longum et latum, ut os
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              totum occludat. </s>
              <s id="N19B34">Quod ſi unus carbo tam magnus in promptu non fuerit,
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              duos in eius locum ſupponat. </s>
              <s id="N19B39">Ore ſic obſtructo tot carbones, quot capit al
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              ueus bracteis ligneis contextus, inijciat in fornacem. </s>
              <s id="N19B3E">Ne uerò carbo, quo oc
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              cluſum eſt os fornacis, tunc excidat, eum magiſter manu teneat. </s>
              <s id="N19B43">Sint autem
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              carbones, qui in fornacem inijciuntur, mediocres: magni enim follium fla­
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              tum impediunt, ne per fornacis os exire poſſit in catinum, eumque calefacere. </s>
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              Tum idem magiſter carboni ad os fornacis appoſito lutum illinat, atque
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                cillum</expan>
              ex ipſo extrahat: ſicque fornax eſt præparata. </s>
              <s id="N19B54">At miniſter rurſus tot car­
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              bones maiores, quot aluei quatuor uel quinque capiunt, in fornacem inijci­
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              at, & eam totam compleat carbonibus: paucos etiam carbones conijciat in
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              catinum, atque ſuperinijciat prunas ut calefiat. </s>
              <s id="N19B5D">Ne uerò ignis flamma per os
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              fornacis ingreſſa carbones incendat, id ipſum luto oblinat, uel claudat ollæ </s>
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