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

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              <s id="N10427">GEORGIVS FABRICIVS IN LI­
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              bros Metallicos GEORGII AGRICOLAE phi­
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              loſophi præſtantiſſimi.</s>
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            <p id="N1042E" type="head">
              <s id="N10430">AD LECTOREM.</s>
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            <p id="N10433" type="main">
              <s id="N10435">Si iuuat ignita cognoſcere fronte Chimæram,
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              Semicanem nympham, ſemibouemque uirum:</s>
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            <p id="N1043A" type="main">
              <s id="N1043C">Si centum capitum Titanem, totque ferentem
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              Sublimem manibus tela cruenta Gygen:</s>
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            <p id="N10441" type="main">
              <s id="N10443">Si iuuat Ætneum penetrare Cyclopis in antrum,
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              Atque alios, Vates quos peperere, metus:</s>
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            <p id="N10448" type="main">
              <s id="N1044A">Nunc placeat mecum doctos euoluere libros,
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              Ingenium AGRICOLAE quos dedit acre tibi.</s>
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            <p id="N1044F" type="main">
              <s id="N10451">Non hic uana tenet ſuſpenſam fabula mentem:
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              Sed precium, utilitas multa, legentis erit.</s>
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            <p id="N10456" type="main">
              <s id="N10458">Quidquid terra ſinu, gremioque recondidit imo,
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              Omne tibi multis eruit antè libris:</s>
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            <p id="N1045D" type="main">
              <s id="N1045F">Siue fluens ſuperas ultro nitatur in oras,
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              Inueniat facilem ſeu magis arte uiam.</s>
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            <p id="N10464" type="main">
              <s id="N10466">Perpetui proprijs manant de fontibus amnes,
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              Eſt grauis Albuneæ ſponte Mephitis odor.</s>
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            <p id="N1046B" type="main">
              <s id="N1046D">Lethales ſunt ſponte ſcrobes Dicæarchidis oræ,
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              Et micat è media conditus ignis humo.</s>
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            <p id="N10472" type="main">
              <s id="N10474">Plana Nariſcorum cùm tellus arſit in agro,
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              Ter curua nondum falce reſecta Ceres.</s>
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            <p id="N10479" type="main">
              <s id="N1047B">Nec dedit hoc damnum paſtor, nec Iuppiter igne:
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              Vulcani per ſe ruperat ira ſolum.</s>
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            <p id="N10480" type="main">
              <s id="N10482">Terrifico aura foras erumpens, incita motu,
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              Sæpe facit montes, antè ubi plana uiæ eſt.</s>
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            <p id="N10487" type="main">
              <s id="N10489">Hæc abſtruſa cauis, imoque incognita fundo,
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              Cognita natura ſæpe fuere duce.</s>
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            <p id="N1048E" type="main">
              <s id="N10490">Arte hominum, in lucem ueniunt quoque multa, manuque
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              Terræ multiplices effodiuntur opes.</s>
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            <p id="N10495" type="main">
              <s id="N10497">Lydia ſic nitrum profert, Islandia ſulfur,
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              Ac modò Tyrrhenus mittit alumen ager.</s>
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            <p id="N1049C" type="main">
              <s id="N1049E">Succina, quâ trifido ſubit æquor Viſtula cornu,
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              Piſcantur Codano corpora ſerua ſinu.</s>
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            <p id="N104A3" type="main">
              <s id="N104A5">Quid memorem regum precioſa inſignia gemmas,
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              Marmoraque excelſis ſtructa ſub aſtra iugis?</s>
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            <p id="N104AA" type="main">
              <s id="N104AC">Nil lapides, nil ſaxa moror: ſunt pulchra metalla,
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              Crœſe tuis opibus clara, Mydaque tuis,</s>
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            <p id="N104B1" type="main">
              <s id="N104B3">Quæque acer Macedo terra Creneide fodit,
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              Nomine permutans nomina priſca ſuo.</s>
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            <p id="N104B8" type="main">
              <s id="N104BA">At nunc non ullis cedit GERMANIA terris, </s>
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