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Biringuccio, Vannuccio.

Copper refining . 536

Copper smelting . 405

Cupellation . 466

Liquation. 494

Manganese . 586

Parting precious metals... 451 ; 461 ; 462

Roasting . 267

Steel making . 420

Zafjre . 112

Boeckh, August . 28

Boerhaave, Hermann. XXIX

Borlase, W. C.

Bronze celts. 411

Borlase, William.

Cornish miners in Germany . 283

Born, Jgnaz Edler von . 300

Boussingault, J. B. 454

Boyle, Robert.

Divining rod . 38

Brough, Bennett. 129

Bruce, J. C . 392

Brunswick, Duke Henry of.

( See Henry, Duke of Brunswick).

Budaeus, William (Guillaume Bude) 461 ; 606

Cadmus. 27

Calbus (see also Nutzlich Bergbuchlin),

610 ; XXVI ; XXVII

Alluvial gold . 75

Caligula.

Gold from auripigmentum . Ill

Callides (alchemist). XXVII; XXVIII

Callimachus.

On wealth. 19

Camerarius. VIII

Canides (alchemist). XXVII; XXVIII

Carew, Richard.

Cornish mining law. 85

Cornish ore-dressing . 282

Carlyle, W. A.

Ancient Rio Tin to smelting. 405

Carne, Joseph.

Cornish cardinal points . 67

Casibrotius, Leonardus. VI

Castigationes in Hippocratem et

Galenum . 606

Castro, John De . 670

Chabas, F. J. 129

Chaloner, Thomas . 570

Chanes (alchemist). XXVII; XXVIII

Charles V. of Spain . IX

Agricola sent on mission to . X

Chevreul, M. E. 38

Chronik der Stadt Freiberg . 606

Cicero.

Divining rod . 38

Wealth of . 15

Cincinnatus L. Quintius . 23

Circe.

Magic rod . 40

Cleopatra.

As an alchemist . XXVII ; XXIX

Collins, A. L. 119

Columbus, Christopher. V

Columella, Moderatus. XXV ; XXVI

Comerius . XXVII ; XXIX

Commentariorum.. .Libri VI . 604

Conrad (Graf Cuntz von Gluck) . ... 23 ; 24

Corduba, Don Juan De . 300

Cortes, Hernando . V

Cramer, John. 236

Crassus, Marcus.

Love of gold . 9

Crates, the Theban.

Money despised by. 15

Croesus, King of Lydia.

Mines owned by . 26 ; 27

Ctesias.

Divining rod . 38

Ctesibius.

Machines. 149

Curio, Claudius.

Love of gold . 9

Curius, Marcus. page

Gold of Samnites . 9; 15

Dana, J. D. 108

Alum . 566

Copiapite . 574

Emery . 115

Lemnian earth. 31

Minerals of Agricola . 594

Zinc vitriol . 572

Danae.

Jove and . 10

D’Arcet, J.

Parting with sulphuric acid . 462

Day, St. John V.

Ancient steel making . 423

De Animantibus Subterraneis . 597 ; VII

Editions . 600

Gnomes. 217 ; 217

De Bello adversus Turcam . 605

De Inventione Dialectica . 606

De Jure et Legibus Metallicis . 100; 604

De Medicatis Fontibus . 605

De Mensuris et Ponderibus . 597

Editions . 599

Weights and measures . 264 ; 78

De Metallis et Machinis . 604

Democritus (alchemist)... XXVII; XXVIIIDemosthenes.

Mt. Laurion mines . 27 ; 83

De Natura eorum quae Effluunt ex

Terra . 598 ; 32

Dedication . VIII

Editions . 600

De Natura Fossilium... 594; 600; III; XII

Alum . 565

Amber . 35

Antimony. 429

Argol . 234

Arsenical minerals. Ill

Asbestos . 440

Bismuth . 110

Bitumen . 581

Borax . 560

Brass making. 410

Cadmia . 113

Caldarium copper . 511

Camphor . 238

Chrysocolla . 584

Coal . 35

Cobalt . 112

Copper flowers. 539 ; 233

Copper scales . 233

Crinoid stems. 115

Emery . 115

Fluorspar . 380

Goslar ores . 273

Goslar smelting . 408

Iron ores. Ill

Iron smelting . 420

Jet . 34

Lapis judaicus . 115

Lead minerals . 110

Mannsfeld ores . 273

Melanteria . 573

Mineral Kingdom . 1

Misy . 573

Molybdaena . 476

Native metals . 108

Petroleum. 581

Pompholyx . 114; 278

Pyrites . 112

Quicksilver . 110

Rudis minerals. 108

Sal-ammoniac . ’ 560

Silver glance . 109

Sory . 573

Spodos . 114

Stannum . 473

Stones which easily melt . 380

Sulphur. 578

Tophus . 233

Touchstone. 253

White schist. 234

Zinc . 409