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    Georgius Agricola (/əˈɡrɪkələ/; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born...
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  • with the name include: Georgius Choeroboscus (7th century), Greek educator Georgius Tzul (11th century), Khazar warlord Georgius Merula (c. 1430–1494)...
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    De re metallica (category Books by Georgius Agricola)
    author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola ("Bauer" and "Agricola" being respectively the German and Latin words for "farmer")...
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    De Natura Fossilium (category Books by Georgius Agricola)
    Fossilium is a scientific text written by Georg Bauer also known as Georgius Agricola, first published in 1546. The book represents the first scientific...
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  • Elements: Agricola" (PDF). The Hexagon. 96 (3). Alpha Chi Sigma: 59. ISSN 0164-6109. OCLC 4478114. Retrieved 7 January 2024. "Georgius Agricola". University...
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    south-pointing chariot of China. Illustrations by the renaissance scientist Georgius Agricola show gear trains with cylindrical teeth. The implementation of the...
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  • Georg Andreas Agricola (1672–1738), German physician and naturalist Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676), German composer Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German...
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    south-pointing chariot of China. Illustrations by the Renaissance scientist Georgius Agricola show gear trains with cylindrical teeth. The implementation of the...
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  • explained many of their properties. The German Renaissance specialist Georgius Agricola wrote works such as De re metallica (On Metals, 1556) and De Natura...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Tycho Brahe, Georgius Agricola. The university is associated with ten Nobel laureates, most recently...
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    formed by the erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt. Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) published his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium...
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    became common during Medieval times with mentions by writers like Georgius Agricola and Conrad Gesner. These led to a widespread association that climaxed...
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    brassy, almost certainly a reference to what is now called pyrite. By Georgius Agricola's time, c. 1550, the term had become a generic term for all of the...
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    century. A wagonway operation was illustrated in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola (image right) in his work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts...
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    scientist Georgius Agricola in the 16th century, in the context of smelting. The name "fluorite" (and later "fluorine") derives from Agricola's invented...
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  • metallica, a 1556 catalog of the mining and refining of metals, by Georgius Agricola Metallica, the stand of Risotto Nero, an antagonist in the manga series...
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  • Fineness.; in the Probierbuchlein – Little Books on Assaying; by Georgius Agricola in book 10 of De Re Metallica; and by Ercker in his Treatise on ores...
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    range is named after Georgius Agricola. LTO-38B2 Nielsen — L&PI topographic map of the Montes Agricola and vicinity. Montes Agricola in Gazetteer of Planetary...
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    university. It has borne the name of the polymath and mining pioneer Georgius Agricola since 1995. Today, the institution offers 14 bachelor's and master's...
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  • wheels. A wagonway operation was illustrated in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola (image right) in his work De re metallica. This line used "Hund" carts...
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    examination, fusion, and working of metals. Sixteen years later, Georgius Agricola published De Re Metallica in 1556, a clear and complete account of...
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    published in 1556, 1572, and 1627. Parts were translated into Latin (by Georgius Agricola), English (Richard Eden; Peter Whitehorn) and Spanish (Bernardo Perez...
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    An engraving by Georgius Agricola or Georg Bauer (1494–1555), illustrating the mining practice of fire-setting...
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    the doctor Georg Bauer (better known by the Latin form of his name, Georgius Agricola) in the late 1527–1531, who based his pioneering metallurgical studies...
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    Marco Polo brought some glazes back to Italy in the 13th century. Georgius Agricola, in around 1600, reported the use of borax as a flux in metallurgy...
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    description of a particular composition of lava-derived rock dates to Georgius Agricola in 1546 in his work De Natura Fossilium. The word granite goes back...
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    dialogue about the nature of metals], by Georgius Agricola, as a mineral noted for its usefulness as a flux. Agricola, a German scientist with expertise in...
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    radiation from the presence of tiny amounts of uranium. In 1529, Georgius Agricola described fluorite as an additive used to lower the melting point...
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    Woodworking. Newtown: The Taunton Press, 1993. 24. ISBN 1561580619 Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, Basel, 1556. Illustration appears on page 285 of...
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    According to Herbert 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...
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