APPENDIX A.
AGRICOLA'S WORKS.
EORGIUS AGRICOLA was not only the author ofworks on Mining and allied subjects, usually asso-ciated with his name, but he also interested himselfto some extent in political and religious subjects.For convenience in discussion we may, therefore,divide his writings on the broad lines of (i) works onmining, geology, mineralogy, and allied subjects; (2)works on other subjects, medical, religious, critical,political, and historical. In respect especially to thefirst division, and partially with regard to the others, we find three principalcases : ( a ) Works which can be authenticated in European libraries to-day ;(b) references to editions of these in bibliographies, catalogues, etc., which wehave been unable to authenticate ; and (c) references to works either un-published or lost. The following are the short titles of all of the publishedworks which we have been able to find on the subjects allied to mining,arranged according to their present importance :— De Re Metallica, firstedition, 1556 ; De Natura FossiUmn, first edition, 1546 ; De Ortu et CausisSubterraneorum, first edition, 1546 ; Bermannus, first edition, 1530 ; RerumMetallicarum Interpretatio, first edition, 1546 ; De Mensuris et Ponderibus,first edition, 1533 ; De Precio Metallorum et Monetis, first edition, 1550 ; DeVeteribus et Novis Metallis, first edition, 1546 ; De Natura eorum quae Effluuntex Terra, first edition, 1546 ; De Animantibus Subterraneis, first edition, 1549.
Of the “ lost ” or unpublished works, on which there is some evidence,the following are the most important:— De Metallicis et Machinis, De OrtuMetallorum Defensio ad Jacobum Scheckium, De Jure et Legibus Metallicis,De Varia Temfierie sive Constitutione Aeris, De Terrae Motu, and Commen-iariorum, Libri VI.
The known published works upon other subjects are as follows :—LatinGrammar, first edition, 1520 ; Two Religious Tracts, first edition, 1522;Galen (Joint Revision of Greek Text), first edition, 1525 ; De Bello adversusTurcam, first edition, 1528 ; De Peste, first edition, 1554.
The lost or partially completed works on subjects unrelated to mining,of which some trace has been found, are :— De Medicatis Fontibus, De Putre-dine solidas partes, etc., Castigationes in Hippocratem, Typographia Mysnaeet Toringiae, De Traditionibus Apostolicis, Oratio de rebus gestis Ernesti etAlberti, Ducum Saxoniae.
REVIEW OF PRINCIPAL WORKS.
Before proceeding with the bibliographical detail, we consider it desirableto review briefly the most important of the author’s works on subjects relatedto mining.
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