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English: Plate from Agricola's 1556 book on mining, published posthumously since the woodcuts had to be finished. Descriptive text runs from here to here
Georgius Agricola (24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555)
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Woodcut plate from Georgius Agricola's 1556 De Re Metallica, Book IX (in English, 'About the Subject of Metals') showing refining in process
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GERMANY - MARCH 06: Plate taken from 'De Re Metallica' (1555) by Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). Agricola was a German mineralogist and metallurgist. He was Germany's first systematic mineralogist, and his 'De Re Metallica' (1555, translated by President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) in 1912), is a valuable and detailed record of 16th century mining, ore-smelting and metal working. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)