Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              lorum, qualem expoſui, & cum aqua ualens conficitur, noctu
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              in
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              uigilia: atque omnino in hac re multa opera, ſummaque cura
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              , à uiris ſo­
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              lertibus altera ſecernendi ratio inuenta eſt minus ſumptuoſa, minus ope­
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              roſa, minus, ſi incuria errorem attulerit, damnoſa. </s>
              <s id="N1B872">Ea uerò diuiditur triparti
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              tò. </s>
              <s id="N1B877">Etenim una ſulfure perficitur, altera ſtibio, tertia aliqua
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              , quæ
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              ex his alijsque rebus conſtat. </s>
              <s id="N1B880">Primò autem argentum, in quo ineſt aliqua auri
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              portio, ſolum in catino liquefactum redigatur in globulos: quot uerò glo­
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              bulorum libræ fuerint, totidem ſint ſulfuris, ignem non experti, ſextantes et
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              ſicilici ſed id
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              globulis madefactis inſpergatur: deinde conijcian­
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              tur in ollam fictilem nouam, quatuor ſextariorum capacem, aut in plures, ſi
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              globulorum copia extiterit. </s>
              <s id="N1B891">Olla repleta operculo item fictili tegatur & ob
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              linatur, atque imponatur in ignem circularem: qui ſeſquipedem ideo ab olla
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              undique diſtet, ut ſulfur argento tantum admiſceatur, non liquatum deſtillet:
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              tum aperiatur olla, globulique nigrore infecti eximantur: poſt in catinum fi­
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              ctilem inijciantur talium globulorum libræ tres & triginta, ſi tot
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              ca­
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              pax fuerit. </s>
              <s id="N1B8A2">Quot autem libras globuli
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              , priuſquam eis inſpergeretur
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              ſulfur, pendebant, totidem æreorum globulorum
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              & ſicilici appen­
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              dantur, ſi quæque libra dodrantem argenti & quadrantem æris in ſe contine
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              at: uel dodrantem & ſemunciam argenti, ſextantem &
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              æris. </s>
              <s id="N1B8B7">Si ue
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              rò dextantem argenti, & ſextantem æris, uel dextantem &
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              argen
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              ti, ſeſcuntiam æris appendantur globulorum æreorum quadrantes: ſi deun
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              cem argenti, unciam æris: uel deuncem & ſemunciam argenti,
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              æ­
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              ris appendantur totidem
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              æreorum quadrantes &
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              atque
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              ſicilici: ſi denique argentum purum fuerit, totidem globulorum æreorum tri­
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              entes & ſemunciæ appendantur: ſed dimidia eorum globulorum æreorum
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              pars mox adijciatur ad globulos argenteos nigrore infectos. </s>
              <s id="N1B8D8">Catinum
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              ſtatim operculare & oblinire, & in fornacem, quæ foraminibus uento inſpi
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              ratur, imponere conuenit: quamprimum uerò
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              liquefactum fuerit,
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              aperiatur catinus, & in eum inijciatur cochlear cumulatum reliquorum glo
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              bulorum æreorum, itemque cochlear
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              pulueris, qui habet pares por
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              tiones ſpumæ argenti, globulorum plumbeorum, ſalis, recrementorum ui­
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              tri: atque catinus rurſus operculo tegatur: qui globuli ærei cùm liquati fue­
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              rint, alij inijciantur cum puluere, uſque dum omnes iniecti fuerint: tum de ca­
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              tino pauca miſtura, non tamen aurea maſſula quæ in eius fundo reſidet, ca­
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              tillo hauſta effundatur, ipſiusque drachma conijciatur in quenque catillum ci­
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              nereum, qui plumbi liquefacti unciam in ſe continet: nam plures ſint: quo
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              modo dimidia argenti drachma conficitur. </s>
              <s id="N1B8FD">Quàm primum autem
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              & æs ab
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              ſeparata fuerint, eius triens inijciatur in ampullam uitream,
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              et affundatur aqua ualens: eo enim modo percipitur, an ſulfur aurum omne
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              ſecreuerit ab argento necne. </s>
              <s id="N1B90E">At ſi quis ſcire uoluerit, quantula auri maſſula
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              in catini fundo reſideat, is filo ferreo craſſo
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              aquis madefactam illinat:
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              cum ea ſiccata fuerit, filum rectà demittat in catinum: quod tam alte, quàm
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              alta eſt auri maſſula, remanet candidum:
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              eius partem miſtura nigro­
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              re inficit: quæ ad filum, ni cito retrahatur, adhæreſcit. </s>
              <s id="N1B921">Itaque ſi extracto filo au
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              rum uiſum fuerit, ab argento ſatis eſſe ſecretum, miſtura effuſa auri maſſula </s>
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