Nde re metallica agricola pdf

This year has been designated agricola year, to celebrate in various ways the 500th anniversary of the birth of georginus agricola. It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with optical recognition software. The delay is thought to be due to the books many woodcuts. This book on mining and metals has beautiful woodcut illustrations. In fact, he and his wife, lou henry hoover, both majored in geology at stanford university. Agricolas latin, while mostly free from mediaevalcorruption, is. Before entering public service, herbert hoover was a successful and wealthy mining engineer. Since this is the only english translation, it is likely to be the lens through which most modern readers will view agricolas work and so merits some further discussion. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola. Biringuccio was essentially a metalworker, and his book dealt with smelting, refining, and assay methods methods for determining the metal content of ores and covered metal casting, molding, core making, and the production of such commodities as cannons and castiron cannonballs. The work covers the mining industry and everything related to it and ranks as one of the great scientific works of the renaissance. Translated from the first latin edition of ss6 with.

Evidently agricola played his cards as town physician and entrepreneur well and became the richest man in chemnitz. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Publication date 1950 topics metallurgy, mineral industries. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after. Many persons hold the opinion that the metal industries are fortuitous and that the. It is a good translation in that it presents the meaning of agricolas text clearly and accurately and the extensive accompanying notes by herbert hoover are. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. O livro continuou sendo o texto autoridade sobre a. Translated from the first latin edition of 1556 with. This book is one of the most important and greatest scientific classics. And so the shovelers and other workmen, as it were hiding beneath this structure, remain. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it.

It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining. The book was published in 1556 by georgius agricola. The work is a systematic, illustrated treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy. Agricola presents his observations in 12 chapters, with more than a hundred woodcut illustrations. Part 1 find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. W stommel gift 1994 a complete and unchanged reprint of the translation published by the mining magazine, london, in 1912. This article sets this work in the context of the man and the age in which it was written and explains why, five centuries after his. Georgius agricola march 24, 1494 november 21, 1555 was a german scholar and scientist, known as the father of mineralogy. While he describes, for the first time, scores of methods and. He was no mere mechanic in an age which did not value vulgar manual occupations or crafts such as mining and, indeed, surgery, very highly. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.