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 35 



Aesculapius. 

 Love of gold 9 



Africanus (alchemist) XXVII ; XXVIII 



Agatharchides. 



Cupellation •it>5 



Egyptian gold mining 279; 391; 399 



Fire-setting 118 



Agathocles. 



Money 21 



Agathodaemon (alchemist) 



XXVII; xxviii 



Agricola, Daniel 606 



Agricola, Georg (a preacher at 



Freiberg) 606 



Agricola, Georgius. 



Assaying 220 



Biography V— XVl 



Founder of Science XIV 



Geologist XII; 46; 53 



Interest in GoWsgaafc mine VII; 74 



Mineralogist XII; 108; 594 



Paracelsus compared with XIV 



Real name V 



Works Appendix A 



See also : 

 Bermannus. 

 De Ammantibus. 

 De Nalura eorum, etc. 

 De Naiura Fossilium. 

 De Ortu et Causis. 

 De Peste. 



De Precio Meialiorum 

 De Re MetaUica. 

 De Veteribus Metallis. 

 Etc. 



Agricola, Kudolph 606 



Albert the Brave, Duke of Meissen VIII 

 Albertus Magnus (Albert von 



Bollstadt) XXX; 609 



Alluvial gold 76 



Cementation 460 



Metallic arsenic Ill 



Metals 44 



Saltpetre 562 



Zinc 409 



Albinus, Petrus V; 599 



Cuntz von Giuck 24 



Alpinus, Prosper 559 



Alyattes, King of Lydia. 



Mines owned by 26; 27 



American Institute of Mining 



Engineers 38; 53 



Anacharsis. 



Invention of bellows 362 



Anacreon of Teos. 



Money despised by 9; 15 



Anaxagoras. 



Money despised by 15 



Anna, daughter of Agricola VII 



Anna, WIFE OF Agricola Vll 



Antiphanes. 



On wealth 19 



Apollodorus 26 



Apulej us (alchemist) XXVII; XXIX 



Archimedes. 



King Hiero's crown 247 



Machines 149 



Ardaillon, Edouard. 



Mt. Laurion 28; 281 ; 391 



page 



Aristippus. 



Gold 9; 14 



Aristodemus. 



Money 8 



Aristotle XII; 607 



Amber 36 



Athenian mines 27; 83 



Burning springs 583 



Coal 34 



Cupellation 465 



Distillation 441 



Lodestone 115 



Nitrum 658 



Ores of brass 410 



Quicksilver 432 



Silver from forest fires 36 



Theory of ore deposits 44 



Wealth of 15 



Arnold de Villa Nova. 



(See Villa Nova, Arnold de). 



Athenaeus. 



Silver from forest fires 36 



Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius 



(alchemist) XXVII; XXX 



Augustinus Pantheus (alchemist). XXVII 



Augustus, Elector of Saxony ... IX 



Dedication of De Re MetaUica .... XXV 



Letter to Agricola XV 



AviCENNA XXX; 608 



Bacon, Roger XXX; 609 



Saltpetre 460; 562 



Badoarius, Franciscus XXVII 



Balboa, V. N. de V 



Ballon, Peter 559 



Barba, Alonso 300, 1 



Barbarus, Hermolaus XXVII 



Barrett, W. F 38 



Becher, J. J 53 



Bechius, Philip XV 



Beckmann, Johann. 



Alumen 565 



Amalgamation 297 



Nitrum 559 



Parting with nitric acid 461 



Stamp-mUls 281 



Stannum 473 



Tin 412 



Bergbiichlein (see Niitzlich Bergbiichlin). 



Bergwerks Levicon 37: 80; 81 



Berman, LoRENZ VI; 597 



Bermannus 596; 599; VI 



Arsenical minerals Ill 



Bismuth 3; 433 



Cadmia 113 



Cobalt 112 



Fluorspar 381 



Molybiaena 477 



Schist 234 



Shafts 102 



7inc 409 



Berthelot, M. P. E 429; 609 



Berthier 498 



Bias of Priene. 



Wealth 8; 14 



Biringuccio, Vannuccio 614 



Agricola indebted to XXVil 



Amalgamation of silver ores 297 



Assaying 220 



Assay ton 242 



Brass making 410 



Clarifying nitric acid 44J 



