Georgius Agricola: De Re Metallica

Abstract

Georgius Agricola De re metallica, tr. from the 1st Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law, from the earliest times to the 16th century,

Agricola's De re metallica, 1556. Part 2

“…Interestingly, in his 1916 review 5 of the Hoover translation, Fairclough, a classicist at Stanford whom the Hoovers had consulted, says simply 'The Latinity of Agricola is comparatively smooth and pure…', though he does repeat the 'House-that-Jack-built' comment he takes it, apparently, as referring to the technicality of the language rather than to Agricola's syntax.…”