See also: Agricola, Bauer
Georgius Agricola , known as Agricola , of its true name Georg Pawer or George Landmann (born the March 24th 1494 with Glauchau in Saxony - died the November 21st 1555 with Chemnitz) was a German archeologist of the 16th century, considered as the “ father of the Minéralogie and the Sidérurgie ” because of its major work Re Metallica which constitutes the first reference book on the mining techniques and the work of metal, accompanied by many illustrations.
Biography
Its name Latinized Agricola is the translation of its German name, Bauer , which means country . It would undoubtedly have been given to him by its Masters, everyday usage at the time.
He exerted initially the Médecine, but gave up this profession and fixed himself at Chemnitz to devote entire to the study minerals to it. He studied especially the mines of money of the Misnie. Though strong scientist, it was not free of the superstitions of the time: he believed in the spirits and the philosopher stone (one has of him a treaty Of lapidates philosophico , Cologne, 1531).
Publications
- Bermannus, sive of Re Metallica , 1530;
- Of lapidates philosophico , 1531
- De Mensuis and Ponderibus , 1533;
- Dominatores Saxonici has PRIMA origin AD hanc aetatem ;
- Of ortu and causis subterraneorum, , 1544;
- Of will natura eorum quae effluunt E will terra , 1545;
- Of veteribus and novis metallis , 1546;
- De Natura Fossilium , 1546;
- '' Of animantibus subterraneis '', 1548;
- '' Of Re Metallica '', 1556.
Contemporary publications
- Of Re Metallica , translated by H.C. Hoover and L.H. Hoover, Dover, 1986, ISBN 0-486-60006-8
- URL: Of Re Metallica Hoover, The Mining Magazine, 1912, Text complete, original, online version
- Bermannus (the minor), a dialog on the mines , transl. Robert Halleux and Albert Jans. Paris, Beautiful Letters, Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-251-34504-3
- Of Re Metallica , translated Latin original edition of 1556 by Albert France-Lanord, Gerard Klopp, Thionville, 1992, ISBN 2-906535-62-1
- De Natura Fossilium (Textbook off Mineralogy), translated by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy, Dover, 2004, ISBN 0-486-49591-4
- URL: '' " Textbook off Mineralogy" '' Original Text, November 1955, online version
See too
Partial source
Simple: Georg Agricola
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