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- GLC#
- GLC02796
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1912
- Author/Creator
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Title
- Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 1 v. : xxix, 640 p. : , 8 p. : of plates : ill. Height: 35 cm, Width: 23 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
Also authored by Lou Henry Hoover. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 and published by the Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London, England. Inscribed by Hoover to Edwin A. Elsbach. De Re Metallica or "On the Nature of Metals" was the standard text on mining for two centuries. Agricola reviewed everything then known about mining, including equipment and machinery, means of finding ores, methods of surveying and digging, assaying ores, smelting, mine administration, and occupational diseases of miners. It also contains descriptions of ores and of strata. Pages uncut.
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