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Georg Agricola

1494–1555

1 standalone book

Georgius Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau in the Electorate of Saxony, he was broadly educated but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium, published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the father of mineralogy and a founder of geology as a scientific discipline.

Born
1494

Books by Georg Agricola

  1. Cover of De Re Metallica

    De Re Metallica

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