INDEX TO PERSONS AND 

 AUTHORITIES. 



Note. — The numbers in heavy type refer to the Text ; 

 those in plain type to the Footnotes, Appendices, etc. 



PAGE 



AcosTA, Joseph De 298 



Aeschylus. 



Amber 36 



Aesculapius. 



Love of gold 9 



Africanus (alchemist) XXVII ; XXVIIl 



Agathakchides. 



Cupellation 465 



Egyptian gold mining 279; 391; 399 



Fire-setting 118 



Agathocles. 



Money 21 



Agathodaemon (alchemist) 



XXVII; XXVIIl 



Agricola, Daniel 000 



Agricola, Georg (a preacher at 



Freiberg) 606 



Agricola, Georgius. 



Assaying 220 



Biography V— XVI 



Founder of Science XIV 



Geologist XII; 46; 53 



Interest in Go«sfoa6 mine VII; 74 



Mmeralogisi XII; 108; 594 



Paracelsus compared with XIV 



Keal name V 



Works Appendix \ 



See also : 

 Bermannus. 

 De Animantibus. 

 De Natura eorum, etc, 

 De Natura Fossilium. 

 De Orlu et Causis. 

 De Peste. 



De Precio Metallorum. 

 De Re Metalhca. 

 De Veteribus Metallis. 

 Etc. 



Agricola, Kudolph 606 



Albert the Brave, Dukb of Meissen VIII 

 Albertus Magnus (Albert von 



BoUstadt) XXX; 609 



Alluvial gold 79 



Cementation 460 



Metallic arsenic Ill 



Metals 44 



Saltpetre 562 



Zinc 409 



Albinus, Pktrus V; 599 



Cuntz von Gliick 24 



Alpinus, Prosper 669 



Alyattes, King of Lydia. 



Mines owned by 29; 27 



American Institute of Mining 



Engineers 38; 53 



Anacharsis. 



Invention of bellows 362 



Anacreon of Teos. 



Money despised by 9; 16 



Anaxagoras. 



Money despised by 15 



Anna, daughter of Agricola VII 



Anna, wife of Agricola VII 



Antiphanes. 



On wealth 19 



Apollodorus 26 



Apulej us (alchemist) XXVII; XXIX 



Archimedes. 



King Hiero's crown J47 



Machines 149 



Ardaillon, Edouard. 



Mt. Laurion 28; 281 ; 391 



PACK 



Aristippus. 



Gold 9; 14 



Aristodemus. 



Money 8 



Aristotle XII; 607 



Amber 35 



Athenian mines 27; 83 



Burning springs S83 



Coal 34 



Cupellation 460 



Distillation 441 



Lodestone 116 



Nitrum 668 



Ores of brass 410 



Quicksilver 432 



Silver from forest fires 36 



Theory of ore deposits 44 



Wealth of IS 



Arnold de Villa Nova. 



[See Villa Nova, Arnold de). 



Athenaeus. 



Silver from forest fires 36 



Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius 



(alchemist) XXVII; XXX 



Augusiinus Pantheus (alchemist). XXVII 



Augustus, Elector of Saxony ... |X 



Dedication of De Re MetalUca .... XXV 



Letter to Agricola XV 



AviCBNNA XXX; 608 



Bacon, Roger XXX; 609 



Saltpetre 460; 562 



Baooarius, Franciscus XXVII 



Balboa, V. N. de V 



Ballon, Peter 569 



Barba, Alonso 300; 1 



Barbarus, Hermolaus XXVII 



Barrett, W. F 38 



Becher, J. J 63 



Bechius, Philip XV 



Beckmann, Johann. 



Alumen 665 



Amalgamation 297 



Nitrum 669 



Parting with nitric acid 461 



Stamp-mills 281 



5/anKum 473 



Tin 412 



BergbUrhlein (see Niitzlich Bergbuihlin). 



Bergwerks Lexicon 37; 80; 81 



Berman, Lorenz VI ; 597 



Bermannus 696; 599; VI 



Arsenical minerals Ill 



Bismuth 3; 433 



Cadmia 113 



Cobalt 112 



Fluorspar 381 



Molybdaena 477 



Schist 234 



Shafts 102 



Tine 409 



Berthelot, M. P. E 429; 608 



Berthier 492 



Bias of Priene. 



Wealth 8; 14 



BiRiNouccio, Vannuccio 614 



Agricola indebted to XXVIi 



Amalgamation of silver ores 297 



Assaying 220 



Assay ton 242 



Brass making 410 



Clarifying nitric acid 443 



