It has been made avail able through the kind permission of honor able herbert c. There is another agricola page maintained at the university of bologna, italy, with more detailed information about agricolas life and work mostly in italian at this time. Baueragricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing the work several years before that. Hoover, full text 650 pages and illustrations george agricola short article from the catholic encyclopedia, 1907 wilsdorf, helmut 1970. Georgius agricola, whose real name was georg bauer, was born at glachau in saxony on march 24, 1494. Good text, solid binding, presentation label inside cover. Translated from the first latin edition of 1556 with.
And the city of chemnitz known as karlmarxstadt from 1953 to 1990 recently celebrated agricolas 500th birthday and presented some information in german on his. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola. I thought you might be interested in this item at title. Born in 1494, he received a classical education at the universities of germany and italy, graduating from leipzig in 1518.
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. Georgius agricola wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Georgius agricola author, herbert hoover translator. One of the most important scientific classics of all time, this 1556. The delay is thought to be due to the books many woodcuts. Baueragricola had died the previous year, and had in fact completed writing. Georg agricola books list of books by author georg agricola. The author was georg bauer, whose pen name was the latinized georgius agricola bauer and agricola being respectively the german and latin words for.
The work is a systematic, illustrated treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy. The german mineralogist and writer on mining georgius agricola 14941555 is a major figure in the history of technology. 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 work covers the mining industry and everything related to it and ranks as one of the great scientific works of the renaissance. Endpaper and pastedown with staining otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edgar rickard, author and publisher, respec tively, of the original volume.
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. That the appearance of this work was eagerly anticipated is evidenced by a letter from george fabricius to valentine hertel. We have new and used copies available, in 0 edition starting at. In 1556 german physician, humanist and scholar georg bauer, better known.