INDEX TO PERSONS
AND AUTHORITIES.
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De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum ...
... 594 ; 600 ; III; VII ; XII ; XIII
Earths . 48
Gangue minerals . 48
Gold in alluvial . 76
Ground waters. 48
Juices . 52
Metals . 51
Solidified juices . 49
Stones . 49
Touchstone.— 253
Veins . 47
De Ortu Metallorum Defensio ad J.
Scheckium . 604
De Peste . 605 ; VIII
De Precio Metallorum et Monetis .... 597 ; 600
Mention by Agricola. 252 ; 264
De Putredine solidas partes, etc. 605
De Re Metallica . I; XIII; XIV—XVI
Editions . 600 ; XIV
Title page. XIX
De Soto, Fernandes. V
De Terrae Motu . 604
De Varia temperie sive Constitutione
Aeris . 604
De Veteribus el Novis Metallis .
. 597 ; 600; VII; XXVI; 5
Agricola’s training . VI
Conrad . 24
Discovery of mines. 36 ; 5 ; 37
Gottsgaab mine. 74
Devoz (de Voz), Cornelius . 570 ; 283
Diodorus Siculus . 607
Alum . 566
Bitumen . 582
Cupellation . 465
Drainage of Spanish mines . 140
Egyptian gold mining . 279
Fire-setting. 118
Lead . 391
Silver from forest fires . 36
Tin. 412
Diogenes Laertius. 7 ; 9 ; 10
Dioscorides . 607; 608
Alum . 566
Antimony. 428
Argol . 234
Arsenic minerals. Ill
Asbestos . 440
Bitumen . 584
Brass making. 410
Burned lead . 237
Cadmia . 112
Chalcitis . 573
Copper flowers. 233 ; 538
Copper smelting . 403
Cupellation . 465
Distillation apparatus . 355
Dust-chambers. 355 ; 394
Emery. 115
Lead . 392
Lead minerals . 477
Lemnian earth. 31
Litharge . 465
Lodestone. H5
Melanteria . 573
Misy . 573
Naphtha . 584
Pompholyx . 394; 410
Quicksilver . 297; 432
Red-lead . 232
Sal-ammoniac . 560
Sory . 573
Spodos . 394
Verdigris . 440
vitriol. 572
White-lead . 440
Diphilus .. 27; 83
Diphilus (poet). .
Gold.:....... 10
Dominatores Saxonici . 606
Draud, G. 599
Dudae.
Alum trade. 569
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Elizabeth, Queen of England.
Charters to alum makers. 283 ; 570
Dedication of Italian De Re Metal-lica to . XV
Importation of German miners ... 283 ; 570
Eloy, N. F. J. 599
Entzelt (Enzelius, Encelio). 615
Erasmus. VI; VIII; XIV
Ercker, Lazarus.
Amalgamation . 300
Liquation. 491 ; 605
Nitric acid preparation . 443
Parting gold and silver . 444 ; 451
Eriphyle.
Love of gold . 9
Ernest, Elector of Saxony. VIII
Euripides.
Amber mentioned by . 35
Plutus . 8 ; 7
Ezekiel, Prophet.
Antimony . 428
Cupellation . 465
Tin. 412
Fabricius, George.
Agricola’s death . X
Friendship with Agricola. VIII
Laudatory poem on Agricola . XXI
Letters . IX ; X ; XIV; XV
Posthumous editor of Agricola. ... 603 ; 606
Fairclough, H. R. Ill
Farinator, Mathias. XXVI
Ferdinand, King of Austria.
Agricola sent on mission to . X
Badoarius sent on mission to .... XXVII
Ferguson, John.
Editions of De Re Metallica . XVI; 599
Feyrabendt, Sigmundi . XV
Figuier, L. 38
Flach, Jacques.
Aljustrel tablet . 83
Florio, Michelangelo . XV
Forster, Johannes. VI
Francis, Col. Grant . 267 ; 283
Francis I., King of France. IX
Frederick, Elector of Saxony... VIII; IXFroben, publisher of De Re Metallica XIV ; XVFrontinus, Sextus Julius. 87
Galen.
Agricola’s revision of. 605 ; VI
Lemnian earth. 31
Mention by Agricola. 2
Galerazeya sive Revelator Secretorum, etc. 606
Gama, Vasco da. V
Ganse (Gaunse), Joachim . 267 ; 283
Gatterer, C. W. 599
Geber. XXVII; XXX; 609
Alum . 569
Assaying . 219
Cementation. 459
Cupels . 466
Nitric acid . 460
Origin of metals . 44
Precipitation of silver nitrate . 443
Genesis, Book of . XII; 43
George, Duke of Saxony. IX ; 310; 310
Gesner, Conrad . 52
Gibbon, Edward . 119
Glauber, J. R. 410
Gluck, Cuntz von (see Conrad).
Gmelin, J. F. 84
Gocher, C. G. 599
Godolphin, Sir Francis . 282
Gowland, William.
Ancient bronze. 410 ; 411 ; 421
Early smelting. 402
Graecus, Marcus.
Saltpetre . 562
Grommestetter, Paul. 281
Grymaldo, Leodigaris . XVI
Gyges, King of Lydia.
Mines owned by . 26 ; 27