77U 



GEORGIUS AGRICOLA 



t 



DE RE METALLICA 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1556 



with 



Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon 



the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical 



Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law 



from the earliest times to the i6th Century 



BY 



HERBERT CLARK HOOVER 



A. B. Stanford University, IVIember American Institute of Mining Engineers, 



Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Sociiti des Ing6niiurs 



Civils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers, 



Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc., etc. 



AND 



LOU HENRY HOOVER 



A. B. Stanford University, Member American Association for the 



Advancement of Science, The National Geographical Society, 



Ro^al Scottish Geographical Society, etc., etc. 



MARINE 

 BIOLOGICAL 



LABORATORY 



LIBRARY 



WOODS HOLE, MASS. 

 W. H. 0. \. 



1950 



T>over 'Publications^ Inc, 



NEW Y<^' 



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