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Dover's 1950 reprint of Herbert C. and Lou Henry Hoover's 1912 English translation of Georgius Agricola's 1556 treatise on mining and metallurgy, with their biography, annotations and appendices. Asbestos (amiantus) appears in the mineral glossary and in notes on a fibrous, fire-resistant efflorescence on smelted schists. Book VI describes miners' diseases: dust from dry mines 'eats away the lungs,' and Carpathian women were said to have married seven husbands lost to consumption.
- Author
- Georgus Agricola
- Published by
- Dover Publications
- Date
- 1950
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21254 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21254
- Rights
- Published in 1930 or earlier; in the public domain in the United States.
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Georgus Agricola. “De Re Metallica: Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556.” 1950. Dover Publications. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21254. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21254.
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