INDEX TO PERSONS ANDAUTHORITIES.
Note. —The numbers in heavy type refer to the Text;those in plain type to the Footnotes, Appendices, etc.
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Acosta, Joseph De . 298
Aeschylus.
Amber . 35
Aesculapius.
Love of gold . 9
Africanus (alchemist) . XXVII ; XXVIII
Agatharchides.
Cupellation . 465
Egyptian gold mining . 279 ; 391 ; 399
Fire-setting. 118
Agathocles.
Money . 21
Agathodaemon (alchemist) .
. XXVII ; XXVIII
Agricola, Daniel. 606
Agricola, Georg (a preacher at
Freiberg) . 606
Agricola, Georgius.
Assaying . 220
Biography . V—XVI
Founder of Science. XIV
Geologist.XII; 46 ; 53
Interest in Gottsgaab mine . VII; 74
Mineralogist . XII; 108 ; 594
Paracelsus compared with. XIV
Real name . V
Works . Appendix A
See also :
Bermannus.
De Animaniibus.
De Natura eorum, etc.De Natura Fossilium.De Ortu et Causis.
De Peste.
De Precio MetallorumDe Re Metallica.
De Veleribus Meiallis.
Etc.
Agricola, Rudolph . 606
Albert the Brave, Duke of Meissen VIIIAlbertus Magnus (Albert von
Bollstadt) . XXX; 609
Alluvial gold . 76
Cementation. 460
Metallic arsenic . Ill
Metals . 44
Saltpetre . 562
Zinc . 409
Albinus, Petrus . V ; 599
Cuntz von Gluck. 24
Alpinus, Prosper . 559
Alyattes, King of Lydia.
Mines owned by . 20 ; 27
American Institute of Mining
Engineers. 58 ; 58
Anacharsis.
Invention of bellows. 362
Anacreon of Teos.
Money despised by . 9 ; 15
Anaxagoras.
Money despised by. 75
Anna, daughter of Agricola . VII
Anna, wife of Agricola . VII
Antiphanes.
On wealth. 19
Apollodorus . 26
Apulejus (alchemist) XXVII; XXIX
Archimedes.
King Hiero’s crown . 247
Machines. 149
Ardaillon, Edouard.
Mt. Laurion. 28 ; 281; 391
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Aristippus.
Gold. 9 ; 14
Aristodemus.
Money . 8
Aristotle . XII; 607
Amber . 35
Athenian mines . 27 ; 83
Burning springs. 583
Coal . 34
Cupellation . 465
Distillation . 441
Lodestone. 115
Nitrum. 658
Ores of brass . 410
Quicksilver . 432
Silver from forest fires . 36
Theory of ore deposits . 44
Wealth of. 15
Arnold de Villa Nova.
(See Villa Nova, Arnold de).
Athenaeus.
Silver from forest fires . 36
Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius
(alchemist) . XXV! I ; XXX
Augustinus Pantheus (alchemist). XXVII
Augustus, Elector of Saxony ... |X
Dedication of De Re Metallica . ... XXV
Letter to Agricola. XV
Avicenna . XXX ; 608
Bacon, Roger . XXX ; 609
Saltpetre . 460 ; 562
Badoarius, Franciscus . XXVII
Balboa, V. N. de . V
Ballon, Peter . 559
Barba, Alonso. 300 ; 1
Barbarus, Hermolaus. XXVII
Barrett, W. F. 38
Becher, J. J. 53
Bechius, Philip . XV
Beckmann, Johann.
A lumen . 505
Amalgamation . 297
Nitrum . 559
Parting with nitric acid. 461
Stamp-mills . 281
Stannum . 473
Tin. 412
Bergbiichlein (see Nutzlich Bergbu Jdin).
Bergwerks Lexicon . 37 ; 80; 81
Berman, Lorenz . VI ; 597
Bermannus . 596 ; 599 ; VI
Arsenical minerals. Ill
Bismuth . 3 ; 433
Cadmia .. 113
Cobalt . 112
Fluorspar . 381
Molybdaena . 477
Schist . 234
Shafts . 102
Zinc . 409
Berthelot, M. P. E. 429 ; 609
Berthier . 492
Bias of Prienf..
Wealth . 8 ; 14
Biringuccio, Vannuccio. 614
Agricola indebted to . XXVII
Amalgamation of silver ores. 297
Assaying . 220
Assay ton . 242
Brass making. 410
Clarifying nitric acid . 448