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De Re Metallica
Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation)
translation · 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912
Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, trans. Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (1912).
De Re Metallica
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Alchemy
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats the bone-ash cupel in cupellation for parting precious-metal assays, absorbing litharge from the button. A named cupel in that mining-metallurgy craft, not a crucible melt-pot and not a muffle-furnace as the chamber alone.
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Stamp mill is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats batteries of falling stamps that crush ore before washing and smelting. A named stamp-mill in that ore-prep craft, not a trip-hammer forging blow and not a rolling-mill of later stock reduction.
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Blast furnace is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats tall blown shaft furnaces for running metal from ore under a forced blast. A named blast-furnace in that smelting craft, not a bloomery low shaft already walked under Pliny and not a finery for refining pig.
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Reverberatory furnace is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats furnaces whose flame is thrown from a roof onto the charge without the fuel lying in the metal. A named reverberatory-furnace in that smelting craft, not a puddling-furnace of later wrought conversion and not a muffle-furnace assay chamber alone.
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Muffle furnace is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats assay furnaces whose muffle shields cupels and charges from the direct flame. A named muffle-furnace in that assay craft, not a reverberatory smelting roof alone and not the cupel as the porous cup alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats bent-neck retorts for distilling and recovering mercury and related vapors in metallurgical work. A named retort in that laboratory craft, not an alembic head alone already walked elsewhere and not a crucible melt-pot.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats hearths for refining and fining brittle run metal toward workable iron. A named finery in that iron craft, not a blast-furnace that first runs the pig and not a puddling-furnace of later conversion.
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Glass furnace is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica Book XII seats melting furnaces that hold pots of working glass among the salts and vitreous works. A named glass-furnace in that craft, not a forge for iron and not a pottery kiln dump alone.
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Catalan forge is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica describes Iberian low-hearth bloomery practice with distinctive blast arrangements later named the Catalan forge. A named catalan-forge in that iron craft reception, not the already-walked bloomery generic and not a field-forge portable hearth.
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Helve hammer is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats long-helved water-powered hammers among the machines that work metal and ore plant. A named helve-hammer in that mill craft, not a tilt-hammer alone as the cam-tilt variant and not a trip-hammer dump without the helve sense.
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Tilt hammer is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats cam-tilted helve hammers that lift and drop onto stock among water-powered forge machines. A named tilt-hammer in that craft, not a trip-hammer alone and not a steam-hammer of later industry.
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Trip hammer is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats water- or cam-lifted hammers that trip and fall onto stock for forging and related plant work. A named trip-hammer in that craft, not a stamp-mill ore battery and not a steam-hammer.
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Sledgehammer is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats heavy long-handled striking hammers among miners’ and smiths’ tools for breaking rock and working metal. A named sledgehammer in that craft, not a war-hammer and not a water-powered trip-hammer plant.
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Wrought iron appears in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats workable low-carbon iron from bloomery and fining practice among the metals of the mines. A named wrought-iron in that metallurgy handbook, not pig-iron as the brittle first run and not steel as the harder class alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats the first brittle iron run from blown furnaces into sow-and-pig molds before fining. A named pig-iron in that smelting handbook, not wrought-iron as the worked product and not a modern foundry dump alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats tin-rich alloys of table and craft ware among the products of tin and lead working. A named pewter in that metallurgy handbook, not tin alone and not silver under a dull name.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica famously distinguishes bismuth (wismuth) as its own brittle metal beside tin and lead in mining speech. A named bismuth in that handbook, not tin and not lead as forced twins.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats mercury amalgams for collecting and working gold and silver from ores and residues. A named amalgam in that metallurgy craft, not metallic mercury alone already met elsewhere and not solder as a tin-lead join.
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Aqua fortis is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats aqua fortis (strong water) among the parting acids that separate silver and related metals. A named aqua-fortis in that parting craft, not aqua-regia as the gold-dissolving mix and not vinegar as a weak acid.
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Aqua regia is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats royal water among the fierce mixed acids that dissolve gold in parting and related work. A named aqua-regia in that craft, not aqua-fortis alone and not gold as the metal dissolved.
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Oil of vitriol is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats the oily strong acid drawn from vitriol salts among the corrosive waters of metallurgical and salt craft. A named oil-of-vitriol in that handbook, not vitriol the crystalline salt alone and not oil as fat.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats niter/saltpeter among the nitrate salts of assay fluxes, corrosives, and powder craft. A named niter in that handbook under the short working spelling, not a second dump of already-met nitre and not chile-saltpeter as New World nitrate.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats borax among soldering and assay fluxes of the furnace. A named borax in that metallurgy craft, not alum and not natron as forced twins.
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White vitriol is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats white vitriol among the vitriol salts of metallurgical and related salt speech. A named white-vitriol in that handbook, not blue or green vitriol and not metallic zinc as identity.
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Glass of lead is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats fused lead glass and litharge glass among furnace vitreous products. A named glass-of-lead in that craft, not litharge pigment reprint already met elsewhere and not glass-of-antimony.
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Glass of tin is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats fused tin glass among the vitreous furnace products beside lead and antimony glasses. A named glass-of-tin in that craft, not butter-of-tin and not putty-powder alone.
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Glass of antimony is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats vitreous antimony oxide glass among antimony works of the furnace. A named glass-of-antimony in that craft, not butter-of-antimony chloride and not regulus-of-antimony as the metallic button.
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Regulus of antimony appears in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats the starry metallic button of reduced antimony among antimony products of the furnace. A named regulus-of-antimony in that handbook, not glass-of-antimony and not butter-of-antimony.
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Flower of antimony appears in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats sublimed antimony oxide flowers among the antimony preparations of furnace and laboratory speech. A named flower-of-antimony in that handbook, not glass-of-antimony and not butter-of-antimony.
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Glass of borax is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats fused borax glass for soldering and assay among the fluxes of the furnace. A named glass-of-borax in that craft, not dry borax alone and not glass-of-lead.
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Spirit of nitre is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats spirits drawn from nitre among the corrosive waters neighboring aqua fortis in parting and salt craft. A named spirit-of-nitre in that handbook, not dry niter alone and not aqua-fortis as forced duplicate.
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Wall saltpeter is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats nitrate crusts harvested from walls and cellars among the saltpeter sources of powder and flux craft. A named wall-saltpeter in that handbook, not chile-saltpeter and not a bare saltpeter dump alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats low-melting join metals for seams and repairs among the working metals of the shop. A named solder in that craft, not amalgam as a mercury alloy and not pewter as a ware alloy alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats the black mix of charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter among the powder crafts neighboring the nitrate and sulfur chapters — war powder speech, not later mine-blasting as a first claim. A named gunpowder in that handbook, not charcoal alone and not fireworks as a show dump.
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Smithy coal is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats coals graded for forge and smithy work among the fuels of metal craft. A named smithy-coal in that handbook, not house-coal as domestic grate coal and not coke as baked smelting fuel of later plant.
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Bituminous coal is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats fossil soft coal among the mineral fuels of mining regions and furnaces. A named bituminous-coal in that handbook under later soft-coal speech, not anthracite as hard coal and not charcoal as made wood-fuel already met elsewhere.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats cut bog peat among fuels used where coal and wood are scarce in mining country. A named peat in that handbook, not coal and not soil alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats gourd-shaped boiling bodies under distillation heads among the vessels neighboring mercury and acid work. A named cucurbit in that laboratory craft, not the alembic head alone and not a retort with bent neck as forced duplicate.
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Annealing pan is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats shallow pans and trays for holding metal while it is annealed and softened for further work. A named annealing-pan in that craft, not a crucible melt-pot and not an annealing-lehr glass tunnel of later industry.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats perforated plates through which wire is drawn to reduce diameter among metalworking tools of the mines’ shops. A named drawplate in that craft, not a rolling-mill and not a ring-mandrel alone.
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Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats small horned beak anvils for bending and scrolling metal among smiths’ stakes. A named bickern in that craft, not the floor anvil alone already met elsewhere and not a stake-anvil without the beak sense.
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Stake anvil is used in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats small shanked anvils that seat in a bench or stump among smiths’ tools. A named stake-anvil in that craft, not the floor anvil alone and not a bickern beak without the stake sense.
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Forge scale appears in Alchemy.
Agricola’s De Re Metallica seats iron oxide scale from the forge among the by-products of hammer and fire work. A named forge-scale in that handbook, not mill-scale as rolling-mill scale and not iron-scale as a vague general word alone.
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Sandyx is historically related to Dye.
agricola-metallica seats sandyx among its lemmas — sandyx speech, not a free modern dump alone.
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Golden Fleece is historically related to Gold.
agricola-metallica seats golden-fleece beside gold as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Quartzite is historically related to Ochre.
agricola-metallica seats quartzite beside ochre as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Senate House is historically related to Marble.
agricola-metallica seats senate-house beside marble as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Tankard is historically related to Workshop.
agricola-metallica seats tankard beside workshop as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Town Hall is historically related to Marble.
agricola-metallica seats town-hall beside marble as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Windmill is historically related to Marble.
agricola-metallica seats windmill beside marble as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Sluice is historically related to Water.
agricola-metallica seats sluice beside water as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Atlantis is historically related to Marble.
agricola-metallica seats atlantis beside marble as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Marbles is historically related to Workshop.
agricola-metallica seats marbles beside workshop as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Spelter is historically related to Water.
agricola-metallica seats spelter beside water as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Compass is historically related to Oak.
agricola-metallica seats compass beside oak as a craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Chain pump is historically related to Iron.
agricola-metallica seats orphan chain-pump beside iron as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Fluorite is historically related to Workshop.
agricola-metallica seats orphan fluorite beside workshop as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Magnetite is historically related to Workshop.
agricola-metallica seats orphan magnetite beside workshop as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Pestilential air is historically related to Clay.
agricola-metallica seats orphan pestilential-air beside clay as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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Zaffera is historically related to Ochre.
agricola-metallica seats orphan zaffera beside ochre as a first craft peer — object speech, not a text-container or tradition dump.
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