Georgius Agricola

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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