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    De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals [Minerals]) is a book in Latin cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals...
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    a scientific discipline. He is well known for his pioneering work De re metallica libri XII, that was published in 1556, one year after his death. This...
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  • and development company De re metallica, a 1556 catalog of the mining and refining of metals, by Georgius Agricola Metallica, the stand of Risotto Nero...
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    The discography of American heavy metal band Metallica includes 11 studio albums, eight live albums, three extended plays, 49 singles, 10 video albums...
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  • band Metallica, released on November 18, 1997, via Elektra Records. The album is a follow-up to Load, released the previous year, and Metallica's last...
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    1556, Georgius Agricola's treatment of mining and smelting of ore, De Re Metallica, included a detailed description of dowsing for metal ore. ...There...
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  • Metallica. It was released on November 24, 1998, through Elektra Records. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited...
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    (Bernardo Perez de Vargas) at various times in the 1550s and 1560s, generally without acknowledgement. The second book on metallurgy, De re metallica, was written...
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    in 1910. Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica (1556) Tr. Herbert Clark Hoover & Lou Henry Hoover (1912); Footnote quoting De Natura Fossilium (1546), p....
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  • Days Re-Revisited (released on CD as The $9.98 CD – Garage Days Re-Revisited) is the first extended play by American heavy metal band Metallica, released...
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    into pulp for making paper. Trip hammers are shown crushing ore in De re Metallica (1555). Clocks were some of the most complex early mechanical devices...
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    Hoover's commentary in his English translation of Georgius Agricola's De re metallica, it is likely to have been common sea salt. In any case, that salt...
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    including De Re Metallica compose the earliest comprehensive "scientific" approach to mineralogy, mining, and geological science. Foreword, De natura fossilium...
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  • Probierbuchlein – Little Books on Assaying; by Georgius Agricola in book 10 of De Re Metallica; and by Ercker in his Treatise on ores and assaying. This was a period...
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    power were used to power the mine hoists documented in Agricola's De Re Metallica, published in 1556. Stationary steam engines were commonly used to...
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    Water-powered stamp mills are illustrated in book 8 of Georg Agricola's De Re Metallica, published in 1556. The mills Agricola shows were largely wooden construction...
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    from books such as Biringuccio's De la pirotechnia and probably most importantly from Georg Agricola's De re metallica (1556). These books detail many...
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  • among them Georg Agricola (1494–1555), who published his major work De re metallica in 1556. His work, describing highly developed and complex processes...
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    Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, Basel, 1556. Illustration appears on page 285 of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, De Re Metallica, Dover Publications...
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    History of rail transport (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was illustrated by Georgius Agricola (see image) in his 1556 work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts with unflanged wheels running on wooden...
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    manufacturing techniques at the site of the Belus River. Georgius Agricola, in De re metallica, reported a traditional serendipitous "discovery" tale of familiar...
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    Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich...
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    mining engineering treatise De re metallica (1556), which also contains sections on geology, mining, and chemistry. De re metallica was the standard chemistry...
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    Hoover's commentary in his English translation of Georgius Agricola's De re metallica, it is likely to have been common sea salt. In any case, that salt...
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    in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola (image right) in his work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts with unflanged wheels running on wooden...
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  • Lightning is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record label Megaforce...
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    Rail transport in Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola (image right) in his work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts with unflanged wheels running on wooden...
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    compounds used in foundries and explosives. It preceded the printing of De re metallica by Georgius Agricola by 14 years. Biringuccio was a member of the secretive...
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    mining engineering treatise De re metallica (1556), which also contains sections on geology, mining and chemistry. De re metallica was the standard chemistry...
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  • Metallica (commonly known as The Black Album) is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 12, 1991, by...
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