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Something wrong?He gave chemistry its modern name, stripped Arabic prefixes from medieval alchemy, and wrote the book that defined mining and metallurgy for two centuries - all before dying the year his masterwork hit print.
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Agricola, Georg (1494 - 1555)
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Folio 154. Medieval mining techniques. Woodcut, 1556 Wellcome L0075652
Folio 171. Medieval mining techniques. Woodcut, 1556. Wellcome L0075651
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, Georgius Agricola mentions a Plague in which almost the whole Body swarmed with Worms: quæ totum fere corpus in putredinem verminosam resolvebat.
About this person
Georg Bauer was born in Glauchau, Saxony, in 1494, took the Latinized name Georgius Agricola, and trained broadly as a Renaissance humanist with a sharp interest in metals and mining. In 1546 he published De Natura Fossilium, the work that made him the father of mineralogy and founder of geology as a discipline. His magnum opus, De re metallica libri XII, appeared in 1556, a year after his death on 21 November 1555. The twelve-chapter treatise was a comprehensive, methodical guide to mining and metallurgy, built entirely on direct observation - he vowed to exclude anything he had not seen, read, or heard firsthand. Unrivalled in accuracy, it served as the standard reference for two hundred years. Over his career he published more than forty works spanning pedagogy, medicine, philosophy, and history, anchoring Renaissance science in precision and systematic inquiry.
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