Agricola, Georg
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De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ...
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TISS. SAXONIAE DVCIBVS, LAND
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grauijs Toringiæ, Marchionibus Miſenæ, Comitibus Palatinis
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Saxoniæ, Burggrauijs Aldeburgi & Magdeburgi, Comiti
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bus Brenæ, dominis terræ Pleiſenſis, MAVRICIO ſacri
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Imperij Archimarſchalco & Electori, atque eius fra
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tri AVGVSTO, GEORGIVS Agri
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tius rei Metallicæ, ut Moderatus Columella Ruſti
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cæ, magnitudinem,
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alicuius corporis gran
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: uel ſingulas eius partes, quaſi
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illius corporis membra,
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percenſuiſſem:
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ueritus ſum, ne uita prius me deficeret, quàm uni
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uerſam percipere poſſem, nedum literis
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nam quàm longe lateque hæc pateat, quot & quan
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tarum artium, ſi non magna, at aliquantula cogni
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tio metallicis ad eam
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neceſſaria ſit, ex his noſtris libris quiſque in
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telliget. </
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cis & Latinis ſcriptoribus, qui extant, abſoluta, perdifficiles habeat explica
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tus: tamen quia ueterrima eſt, &
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generi maximè neceſſaria, atque fru
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ctuoſiſſima, non debere à nobis negligi uidebatur. </
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entiarum nulla ſine dubitatione uetuſtior, tamen hac res Metallica eſt anti
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quior, uel ſaltem æqualis & coæua: nemo enim omnium mortalium
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abſque inſtrumentis agrum coluit. </
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omne opus eſt in faciendo;
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aut ex metallis facta ſunt, aut ſine me
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tallis non potuerunt confici: qua de cauſa res metallica hominibus etiam eſt
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maxime neceſſaria. </
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rumque maximus ſit numerus, nulla ſine inſtrumentis quicquam efficit: tum
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omnium rerum, quibus magnæ diuitiæ bona & honeſta ratione acquirun
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tur, nihil eſt arte metallica utilius: ex agris enim bene cultis (ut alias res omit
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tam) fructus capimus uberrimos, ſed uberiores ex fodinis. </
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na ſæpe multo maiores utilitatis fructus nobis præbet, quàm agri plurimi:
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quocirca ex omnium ferè ſeculorum memoria cognoſcimus, complures ex
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metallis diuites factos eſſe, & eadem
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regum fortunas amplificaſſe:
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ſed de his nunc plura non dicam: quod eos locos in primo libro, partim hui
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us operis, partim alterius, inſcripti De ueteribus & nouis metallis, tractaue
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rim, ac ea, quæ contra metalla & ipſos metallicos
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, refellerim. </
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res ruſtica, cum qua metallicam libenter confero, uarie uidetur eſſe
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diffuſa, tamen in multo plures, quàm hæc noſtra, partes
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diſtribuitur: nec
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tam facile præcepta huius à me tradi poſſunt, quàm Columella illius tradi
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dit: quod ipſe
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