Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              <s id="N1ED1A">GEORGII AGRICO
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              LAE DE RE METALLICA
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              LIBER DVODECIMVS.</s>
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              <s id="N1ED23">Praecepta argenti
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              ab ære, libro pro­
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              ximo tradidi, ſupereſt ea pars, quæ ad ſuccos con­
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              cretos pertinet: quæ, cùm aliena à re metallica uide
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              ri poſſit, quid cauſæ ſit cur ab ea ſeparari non debe­
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              at, libro
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              explicaui. </s>
              <s id="N1ED36">Succi autem concreti
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                ficiuntur</expan>
              uel ex aquis, quas natura, aut ars, ſuccis in­
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              fecit, uel ex ipſis ſuccis liquidis, uel ex lapidibus mi
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              ſtis. </s>
              <s id="N1ED43">Initio ſolertes homines cùm uiderent aquas
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              quorundam lacuum, natura ſucci plenas, ſolis ardo
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              ribus ſiccatas conſpiſſari, atque ex eis fieri ſuccos concretos, ueriſimile eſt eos
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              aquas aſſimiles alijs in locis infudiſſe uel corriuaſſe in areas, ad aliquam alti­
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              tudinem depreſſas, ut ipſas etiam ſolis calores condenſarent. </s>
              <s id="N1ED4E">Deinde, quia
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              uiderent iſta ratione ſuccos concretos
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              æſtate confici poſſe, nec
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              tamen in omnibus regionibus, ſed in calidis & temperatis ſolum, in quibus
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              æſtiuo tempore raro pluit, eas quoque in uaſis igne ſubiecto coquere ad ſpiſ­
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              ſitudinem cœpiſſe: quo modo omnibus anni temporibus in omnibus regi
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              onibus, etiam frigidiſſimis ex aquis ſuccoſis, ſiue natura, ſiue ars eas infece­
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              rit, coctis ſucci concreti confici poſſunt. </s>
              <s id="N1ED61">Poſtea cùm quoſdam lapides uſtos
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              ſtillare ſuccis uiderent, eos in ollis coxiſſe, ut etiam ſic aliquos ſuccos concre
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              tos efficerent. </s>
              <s id="N1ED68">Sed quot & quibus rationibus, eorum quiſque confici poſſit,
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                <expan abbr="operæpreciũ">operæ precium</expan>
              eſt cognoſcere. </s>
              <s id="N1ED70">Itaque ordiar à ſale: qui fit aut ex aqua, quæ uel
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              naturaliter ſalſa eſt, uel talis
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              operis effecta: aut ex diluto ſalſo, aut ex
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              lixiuio item ſalſo. </s>
              <s id="N1ED7B">Atque aqua quidem naturaliter ſalſa, aut in ſalinis à ſolis ar
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              dore, aut in cortinis uel ollis, uel foſſis, ab ignis calore conſpiſſata uertitur in
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              ſalem. </s>
              <s id="N1ED82">Quæ uerò arte ſalſa eſt, igne denſata in eundem ſalem mutatur. </s>
              <s id="N1ED85">Sali­
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              næ autem, ſi loci ratio ita fert, ac ipſa res hoc poſtulat, fodiendæ ſunt multæ:
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              nec tamen plures quàm utile ſit. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Tantũ">Tantum</expan>
              enim ſalem
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              debemus, quan
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              tum poſſumus diuendere. </s>
              <s id="N1ED98">Sit uerò earum altitudo modica & planicies æ­
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              quata, ut omnes aquæ ſolis caloribus ſiccentur in ſalem: quinetiam areæ ſali
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              nariæ, ne combibant aquas, ſale primum facto cruſtentur. </s>
              <s id="N1ED9F">Vetus hoc eſt &
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              multis in locis
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              , aquas marinas infundere in ſalinas, ſiue in
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              deri­
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              uare: non minus uetus ſed minus
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              aquas puteales in ſalinas ingerere:
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              Babylone
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              eſſe autor eſt Plinius: & in Cappadocia
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              modo putea
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              les, ingeſtas eſſe, ſed
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              fontanas. </s>
              <s id="N1EDC5">Certe in calidis regionib. </s>
              <s id="N1EDC8">omnes aquæ ſal
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              ſæ, lacuſtres quoque, in tales ſalinas ductæ, uel fuſæ, uel ingeſtæ, & ſolis ardo
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              ribus ſiccatæ in ſalem conuerti poſſunt. </s>
              <s id="N1EDCF">Dum autem aquæ ſalſæ, quas conti
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              nent ſalinæ, ſole coquuntur, ſi magni & crebri imbres effluxerint, ſpiſſitati
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              ſunt impedimento: ſi rari, ſal ſaporem grauiorem contrahit: ut etiam, cùm
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              ſalinæ alia aqua dulci rigantur. </s>
              <s id="N1EDD8">Sed ſal ex aqua marina hoc modo
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              : </s>
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