DE RE METALLICA Agricola, Georgius

De Re Metallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556. With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Develkopment of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law from the earliest times to the 16th Century. by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover.

Originally published in 1556, Agricola's De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation -what today would be called the "scientific approach." It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to its day.
For almost 200 years, Agricola remained the only authoritative work in this area and by modern times it had become one of the most highly respected scientific classics of all time. A book more often referred to in literature on mining and metallurgy than any other, its Latin text prevented it from being as widely used as it might have been.

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Autor: Agricola, Georgius
Idioma: English
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1950
18x28 cm.
638 páginas. Tapas duras en tela editorial con sobrecubierta. Esta última con pequeña perdida en la parte superior posterior. Numerosas ilustraciones. Firma. Buen estado.

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