APPENDIX A. 



AGRICOLA'S WORKS. 



EORGIUS AGRICOLA was not only the author of 

 works on Mining and allied subjects, usuedly asso- 

 ciated with his name, but he also interested himself 

 to some extent in pohtical and religious subjects. 

 For convenience in discussion we may, therefore, 

 divide his writings on the broad hnes of (i) works on 

 mining, geology, mineralogy, and aUied subjects ; (2) 

 works on other subjects, medical, rehgious, critical, 

 pohtical, and historical. In respect especially to the 

 first division, and partially with regard to the others, we find three principal 

 cases : (a) Works which can be authenticated in European hbraries to-day ; 

 (&) references to editions of these in bibhographies, catalogues, etc., which we 

 have been unable to authenticate ; and (c) references to works either un- 

 pubUshed or lost. The following are the short titles of all of the pubhshed 

 works which we have been able to find on the subjects alhed to mining, 

 arranged according to their present importance : — De Re Metallica, first 

 edition, 1556 ; De Natura Fossilium, first edition, 1546 ; De Ortu et Causis 

 Subterraneorum, first edition, 1546 ; Bermannus, first edition, 1530 ; Rerum 

 Metallicarum Interpretatio, first edition, 1546 ; De Mensuris et Ponderibus, 

 first edition, 1533 ; De Precio Metalloruni et Monetis, first edition, 1550 ; De 

 Veteribus et Novis MetalUs, first edition, 1546 ; De Natura eoruni quae Effluunt 

 ex Terra, first edition, 1546 ; De Animantibus Subterraneis, first edition, 1549. 



Of the " lost " or unpubhshed works, on which there is some evidence, 

 the following are the most important : — De Metallicis et Machinis, De Ortu 

 Metalloruni Defensio ad Jacobum Scheckium, De Jure et Legibus Metallicis, 

 De Varia Temperie sive Constitutione Aeris, De Terrae Motu, and Commen- 

 tariorum, Libri VI. 



The known pubhshed works upon other subjects are as follows : — Latin 

 Grammar, first edition, 1520 ; Two Rehgious Tracts, first edition, 1522; 

 Galen (Joint Revision of Greek Text), first edition, 1525 ; De Bello adversus 

 Turcam, first edition, 1528 ; De Peste, first edition, 1554. 



The lost or partially completed works on subjects unrelated to mining, 

 of which some trace has been found, are : — De Medicatis Fontibus, De Putre- 

 dine solidas partes, etc., Castigationes in Hippocratem, Typographia Mysnae 

 et Toringiae, De Traditionibus Apostolicis, Oratio de rebus gestis Ernesti et 

 Alberti, Ducum Saxoniae. 



REVIEW OF PRINCIPAL WORKS. 



Before proceeding with the bibhographical detail, we consider it desirable 

 to review briefly the most important of the author's works on subjects related 

 to mining. 



