BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
For the following we have mainly to thank Miss Kathleen Schlesinger, who has been
employed many months in following up every clue, and although the results display
very considerable literary activity on the part of the author, they do not by any means
indicate Miss Schlesinger's labours. Agricola's works were many of them published at
various times in combination, and therefore to set out the title and the publication of each
work separately would involve much repetition of titles, and we consequently give the titles
of the various volumes arranged according to dates. For instance, De Natura Fossilium, De
Ortu et Causis, De Veteribm et Novis Metallic, De Natura eorum quae Effluunt ex Terra, and
Interpretatio have always been published together, and the Latin and Italian editions of
these works always include Bermannus as well. Moreover, the Latin De Re Metallica of
1657 includes all of these works.
We mark with an asterisk the titles to editions which we have been able to authenticate by various means from actual books. Those unmarked are editions which we are
satisfied do exist, but the titles of which are possibly incomplete, as they are taken from
library catalogues, etc. Other editions to which we find reference and of which we are not
certain are noted separately in the discussion later on.8
♦1530 (8vo).
Georgii Agricolae Medici, Bermannus sive de re Metallica.
(Froben's mark).
Basileae in aedibus Frobenianis Anno, mdxxx.
Bound with this edition is (p. 131-135), at least occasionally, Rerum metaUicarum
appellationes juxta vernaculam Germanorum linguam, autori Plateano.
Basileae in officina Frobeniana, Anno, mdxxx.
*1533(8vo):
Georgii Agricolae Medici libri quinque de Mensuris et Ponderibus : in quibus plaeraque
à Budaeo et Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. Opus nunc primum in lucem
aeditum:
(Wechelus's Mark).
Parisiis. Excudebat Christianus Wechelus, in vico Iacobaeo, sub scuto Basikiensi, Anno
MDXXXIII.
261 pages and index of 5 pages.
*The following are the titles of the works referred to in this discussion :—
Petrus Albinus : Meissnische Land und Berg Chronica In welcher ein wollnstendige
description des Landes, etc., Dresden, 1590 (contains part 1, Commentator tum de Mysnia).
Newe Chronica und Beschreibung des Landes zu Meissen, pp. i to 449> besides preface and
index, and Part IL Meissnische Bergk Chronica, Dresden, 1590, pp. 1 to 205, besides preface
and index.
Adam Daniel Richter : Unständliche .... Chronica der ... . Stadt
Chemnitz nebst beygefügten Urkunden, 2 pts. 4to, Zittau & Leipzig, 1767.
Ben. G. Weinart : Versuch einer Litteratur d. Sächsischen Geschichte und Staats künde,
Leipzig, 1885.
Friedrich August Schmid : Georg Agrikola's Bermannus : Einleitung in die
metallurgischen Schriften desselben, Freyberg, Graz & Gerlach, 1806, pp. vin., 1-260.
Franz Ambros Reuss : Mineralogische Geographie von Böhmen. 2 vols. 4to, Dresden,
1793-97. (Agricola Vol. 1, p. 2).
Jacob Leupold : Prodromus Bibliothecae Metallicae, corrected, continued, and
augmented by F. E. Brückmann. Wolfenbüttel, 1732, s.v. Agricola.
Christian Gottlieb Göcher : Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, with continuation and
supplements by Adelung, Leipzig, 1750, s.v. Agricola.
John Anton Van der Linden : De Scriptis medicis, Libri duo, Amsterdam, 1662, s.v.
Georgius Agricola.
Nicolas François Joseph Eloy: Dictionnaire Historique de la Médecine, Liège &
Francfort (chez J. F. Bassompierre), 1755, 8vo (Agricola p. 28, vol. 1).
Georg Abraham Mercklinus : Lindenius Renovatus de scriptis medicis continuati
. . . . amplificati, etc., Amsterdam, 1686, s.v. Georgius Agricola.
John Ferguson : Bibliotheca Chemica : A catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical,
and Pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly & Durris, Esq.,
LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. Glasgow, 1906, 4to, 2 vols., s.v. Agricola.
^ Christoph Wilhelm Gatterer : Allgemeines Repertorium der mineralogischen, bergwerks und Salz werkswissenschaftlichen Literatur, Göttingen, 1798, vol. 1.
Dr. Reinhold Hofmann : Dr. Georg Agricola, Ein Gelehrtenleben aus dem Zeitalter der
Reformation, 8vo, Gotha, 1905.
Georg Heinrich Jacobi : Der Mineralog Georgius Agricola und sein Verhältnis zur
Wissenschaft seiner Zeit, etc., 8vo. Zwickau (1889), (Dissertation—Leipzig).
Georg Draud : Bibliotheca Classica, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1611.
B. G. Struve : Bibliotheca Saxonica, 8vo, Halle, 1736.
