632 



INDEX TO PERSONS AND AUTHORITIES. 



BiRINGUCCIO, Vannuccio. 



Copper refining 536 



Copper smelting 405 



Cupellation 466 



Liguation 494 



Manganese 586 



Parting precious metals... 451 ; 461 ; 462 



Roasting 267 



Steel making 420 



Zaffre 112 



BoECKH, August 28 



BOERHAAVE, HERMANN XXIX 



BORLASE, W. C. 



Bronze celts 411 



BoRLASE, William. 



Cornish miners in Germany 283 



Born, Ignaz Edler von 300 



Boussingault, J. B 454 



Boyle, Robert. 



Divining rod 38 



Brough, Bennett 129 



Bruce, J. C 392 



Brunswick, Duke Henry of. 



(See Henry, Duke of Brunswick). 

 BuDAEUS, William (Guillaume Bude) 461 ; 606 



Cadmus 27 



Calbus (see also Nutzlich Bergbiichlin), 



610; XXVI; XXVII 



Alluvial gold 75 



Caligula. 



Gold from auripignientum Ill 



Callides (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



Callimachus. 



On wealth 19 



Camerarius VIII 



Canides (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



Carew, Richard. 



Cornish mining law 



Cornish ore-dressing 



Carlyle, W. a. 



Ancient Rio Tinto smelting 



Carne, Joseph. 



Cornish cardinal points 



Casibrotius, Leonardus 



Castigationes in Hippocratem el 



Galenum 



Castro, John De 



Chabas, F. J 



Chaloner, Thomas 



Chanes (alchemist) XXVII 



Charles V. of Spain 



Agricola sent on mission to 



Chevreul, M. E 



Chronik der Stadt Freiberg 



Cicero. 



Divining rod 



Wealth of 



Cincinnatus L. Quintius .... 

 Circe. 



Magic rod 



Cleopatra. 



As an alchemist 



Collins, A. L 



Columbus, Christopher 



Columella, Moderatus 



Comerius 



Comnientarioritm...Libri VI. . . 



85 

 282 



405 



87 

 VI 



605 



670 



129 



570 



XXVIII 



IX 



X 



38 



606 



38 

 15 

 23 



40 



XXVII; XXIX 



119 



V 



XXV; XXVI 

 XXVII ; XXIX 

 604 



Conrad (Graf Cuntz von Gliick) . .. 



Corduba, Don Juan De 



Cortes, Hernando 



Cramer, John 



Crassus, Marcus. 



Love of gold 



Crates, the Theban. 



Money despised by 



Croesus, King of Lypia. 



Mines owned by 



Ctesias. 



Divining rod 



Ctesibius. 



Machines 



Curio, Claudius. 



Love of gold 



23; 



24 



300 



V 



236 



9 



15 



26; 27 



38 



149 



CuRius, Marcus. page 



Gold of Samnites 9; 15 



Dana, J. D 108 



Alum 566 



Copiapite 574 



Emery 115 



Lemnian earth 31 



Minerals of Agricola 594 



Zinc vitriol 572 



Danae. 



Jove and 10 



D'Arcet, J. 



Parting with sulphuric acid 462 



Day, St. John V. 



Ancient steel making 423 



De Animantibus Subterraneis 597 ; VII 



Editions 600 



Gnomes 217; 217 



De Bella adversus Turcam 605 



De Inventione Dialectica 606 



De Jure et Legibus Metallicis 100; 604 



De Medicatis Fontibus 605 



De Mensuris et Ponderibus 597 



Editions 599 



Weights and measures 264; 78 



De Metallii et Machinis 604 



Democritus (alchemist)... XXVII; XXVIII 



Demosthenes. 



Mt. Laurion mines 27; 83 



De Natnra eorum quae Effluunt ex 



Terra .598; 32 



Dedication VIII 



Editions 600 



De Natura Fossilium... 594 ; 600 ; III ; XH 



Alum 565 



Amber 35 



Antimony 429 



Argol 234 



Arsenical minerals Ill 



Asbestos 440 



Bismuth 110 



Bitumen 581 



Borax 560 



Brass making 410 



Cadmia 113 



CaMari «m copper 511 



Camphor 238 



Chrysocolla 584 



Coal 35 



Cobalt 112 



Copper flowers 539; 233 



Copper scales 233 



Crinoid stems 115 



Emery 115 



Fluorspar 380 



Goslar ores 273 



Goslar smelting 408 



Iron ores Ill 



Iron smelting 420 



Jet 34 



Lapis iudaicus 115 



Lead minerals 110 



Mannsfeld ores 273 



Melanteria 573 



Mineral Kingdom 1 



Misy 573 



Molybdaena 476 



Native metals 108 



Petroleum 581 



Pomphohx 114; 278 



Pyrites 112 



Quicksilver 110 



Rudis minerals 108 



Sal-ammoniac 560 



Silver glance 109 



Sory 573 



Spodos 114 



Stannum 473 



Stones which easily melt 380 



Sulphur 578 



Tophus 233 



Touchstone 253 



White schist 234 



Zinc 409 



