INDEX TO PERSONS AND AUTHORITIES. 



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MOSELLANUS, PeTRUS VI 



Moses. 



Bitumen 582 



Lead 391 



Refining gold 399 



Rod of Horeb 3S ; 40 



MiiLLER, Max. 



Ancient iron 421 



Naevius. 



Money 20 



Nash, W. G. 



Rio Tinto mine 149 



Naumachius. 



Gold and silver 8 



Neckam, Alexander 



Compass 57 



Newcomen, Thomas 149 



NlC.\NDER. 



On coal 34 



Nicias. 



Sosias and slaves of 25; 25 



Nufzltch Ber^bUchhn... 610; XXVI; XXVII 



Alluvial gold 75 



Bismuth 110; 433 



Compass 57; 129 



Ore-deposits 44 



Ore-shoots 43 



Veins 43; 46; 73 



Olywpiodorus (alchemist)... XXVII; XXX 

 Oppel, van (see Van Oppel). 

 Orus Chrysorichites (alchemist) ... 



XXVII; XXVIII 



OSTHANES (alchemist) XXVII; XXIX 



Otho THE Great 6 



Otho, Prince 6 



Ovid. 



Mining censured by 7 



Pandulfus Anglus XXVI 



Pantaenetus. 



Demosthenes' oration against 27 ; 83 



Pantheus, Augustinus (alchemist). XXVII 



Paracelsus XIV; XXX 



Divining rod 38 



Zinc 112; 409 



Paris, Matthew (Se« Matthew Paris). 



Pebichius (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



Pelagius (alchemist) XXVII 



Pennent, Thomas 570 



Percy, John. 



Cementation 454; 459 



Cupellation 465 



Liquation 491 



Parting with antimony 451; 452 



Peregrinus, Petrus. 



Compass 67 



Petasius (alchemist) XXVI I ; XXVIII 



Petrie, \V, M. F. 



EgjTDtian iron 421 



Mt. Sinai copper 402 



Pettus, Sir John XVI; 283 



Phaenippus. 



Demosthenes' oration against 27 ; 83 



Phaeton's sisters 35 



Pherecrates XXVI 



Philemon. 



Riches 7 



Philip OF Macedonia 27 



Philip. Peter 282 



Phillips, J. A 410 



Philo. 



Lost work on mining XXVI 



Phocion. 



Bribe of Alexander 9; 15 



Phocylides. 



Gold 7 



Photius 279 



Fire-setting 118 



Pindar. 



Wealth 19; 252 



Pius II. Pope. 



Alum maker 570 



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Pizarro, F V 



Puateanus, Petrus XIV 



Plautus. 



Gold 10 



Pliny (Caius Plinius Secundus) ... XXVI ; 008 



Alluvial mining 331; 333 



.■\lum 566 



Amalgamation 297 



Amber 36 



Antimony 428 



Argol 234 



Arrhenicum HI 



Asbestos 440 



Bitumen 33; 583 



Brass 410 



British miners 83 



Cadmia 112 



Cementation 459 



Chrysocolla 560 



Copper flowers and scales 233; 538 



Copper smelting 404 



Cupellation 466 



Drainage of Spanish mines 149 



Electrum 458 



Fire-setting 118 



Galena 476 



Glass 585; 586 



Hannibal's silver mine 42; 42 



Hoisting ore 157; 157 



Iron 11 



Jew-stone 115 



Lead 392 



Lemnian earth 31 



Litharge 475; 466; 501 



Lodestone 115 



Manganese (?) 586 



Metallurgical appUances 355 



Misy 573 



Molybdaena 466; 476 



Naphtha 583 



Nitrum 560 



Ore-dressing 281 



Outcrops 65 



Pompholyx 396 



Protection from poison 215 



Quicksilver 433 



Red-lead 232 



Roasting 267 



Sal-ammoniac 560 



Salt from wood 558 



Silver-lead smelting 392 



Sory 573 



Spodos 396 



Stannum 473 



Tin, Spanish 412 



Tophus 233 



Touchstone 256; 253 



Turfs in sluices 33l ; 332 



Vena 43 



Ventilation with wet cloths 210; 210 



Verdigris 440 



Vitriol 572 



White-lead 440 



Plutarch 25 



Pluto 218 



polybius. 



Ore washing 281 



Silver-lead smelting 392 ; 465 



POLYMNESTOR, KiNG OF ThRACE. 



Love of gold 9; 16 



PoRTNER, Hans 281 



PosEPNY, Franz 53 



POSIDONIUS. 



Asphalt and naphtha 584 



Drainage of Spanish mines 149 



Silver from forest fires 36 



Priam, King of Troy. 



Gold mines of 26: 27 



Probierbuchlein 612; XXVI 



Amalgamation 207 



Antimony *"0 



Assaying 220 



Assay ton 242 



Bismuth 4S3 



