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INDEX TO PERSONS AND AUTHORITIES. 



Probierbuchlein. 



Cementation 454 



Nitric acid 439 



Parting 461; 462; 463 



Precipitation of silver nitrate 443 



Residues from distillation of nitric 



acid 235; 443 



Roasting 267 



Stock fluxes 235; 236 



Touchstone 253 



Propertius. 



Gold 10 



Pryce, William. 



Adam's fall 353 



Divining rod 38 



Juices 1 



Ore-deposits 53 



Stamp-miU 282 



Stringers 70 



Psalms. 



Silver refining 466 



PULSIFER. Wm. H 391 



Pygmalion. 



Love of gold 9; 16 



Rachaidibus (alchemist) XXVII 



Rameses I. 



Map of mines 129 



Rameses III. 



Leaden objects dating from 391 



Raspe, R. E 300 



Rawlinson, George 583 



Ray, p. Chandra. 



Indian zinc 409 



Raymond, Rossiter W 38 



Rechier Gebrauch der Alchimey 606 



Rermn Metallicarum Interpretatio . ... 



597; VTI; 600 



Reuss, F. a 599 



RiCHTER, A. D V; 599 



RoDiANUS (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



RossLER, B 53 



Royal Geological Society of 



Cornwall 84 



RtJHLEiN VON Kalbe (se« Calbus). 



Salmoneus. 



Lightning 11 



Sandwich, Earl of, trans. Barba's 



book 300 



Sappho. 



Wealth 19 



Savery, Thomas 149 



Saxony, Dukes and Electors of. 



(See under personal names : Albert, 

 Ernest, etc.). 



Schliemann, H 391 



schluter, c.a. 



Artificial zinc vitriol 572 



Copper refining 535 



Cupellation 464 



Liquation 491 ; 506 



Parting with sulphur 462 



Schmid, F. A V; XV; 599 



Schnabel and Lewis 465 



Scott, Sir Walter. 



"Antiquary" 300 



Seneca. 



Wealth of 15 



Seneferu. 



Copper mines 402 



Seti I. 



Map of mine 129 



Shaw, Peter XXVIII 



Shoo King. 



Copper and lead 391; 402 



Iron 421 



Shutz, Christopher 283 



Sigfrido, Joanne. 



Ed. Agricola's works XV 



Socrates. 



Riches 7; 9; 14; IS 



SoLiNus, C. Julius. 



Solifuga 216; 216 



page 

 Solomon, King. 



Cobalt in mines 214 



Solon. 



Scarcity of silver under 27 



Sosias, the Thracian. 



Slaves employed by 25 



Stahl, G. E 53 



Staunton, Sir George 409 



Stephanus (alchemist) XXVII; XXX 



Stephenson, George 149 



Strabo 607 



Arsenical minerals Ill 



Asbestos 440 



Asphalt 584; 33 



Bellows 362 



Cementation 458 



Cupellation 465 



Drainage of Spanish mines 149 



Forest fires melting veins 36 



High stacks 355 



Lydian mines , 26; 27 



Mt. Laurion 27 



Silver-lead smelting 391 



Spanish ore-washing 281 



Zinc (?) 409 



StR ATO 



Lost work on mines XXVI ; XXVII ; XII 



Struve, B. G 599 



Synesius (alchemist) XXVII; XXIX 



Tantalus 27 



Taphnutia (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



Tapping, Thomas 85 



Thales of Miletus. 



Amber 35 



Themistocles. 



Athenian mine royalties 27 



Theodor, son of Agricola VII 



Theognis. 



Cupellation 465 



On greed 18 



Plutus 8 



Refining gold 399 



Theological Tracts (Agricola) 605 



Theophilus (alchemist) XXVII; XXVIII 



Theophilus the Monk 609 



Brass maldng 410 



Calamine 112 



Cementation 459 



Copper refining 536 



Copper smelting 405 



Cupels 468 



Divining rod 38 



Liquation 494 



Metallurgical appliances 355 



Parting with sulphur 461 



Roasting 267 



Theophrastus XII; 607 



Amber 35 



Arsenical minerals Ill 



Asbestos 440 



Assaying 219 



Coal 34 



Copper minerals 110 



Copper ore 403 



Emery 115 



Lodestone 115 



Lost works XXVI; 403 



Origin of minerals 44 



Parting precious metals 458 



Quicksilver 297; 432 



Touchstone 252 



Verdigris 440 



Vermilion 232 



White-lead 391; 440 



Thompson, Lewis 462 



Thoth. 



Hermes Trismegistos XXIX 



Thotmes III. 



Lead 391; 582 



Thucydides. 



Mining prefect 23; 23; 95 



Tibullus. 



Wealth condemned by 16 



