German mineralogist (1494-1555)
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.
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, rea…
Sourced, dated quotes from Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola mentions a Plague in which almost the whole Body swarmed with Worms: quæ totum fere corpus in putredinem verminosam resolvebat.
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