[25] Op. cit., p. 354.
[26] Albinus, Op. cit., p. 355.
[Pg 606][27] Baumgarten-Crusius, p. 2.
[28] See Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, s.v. Daniel Agricola.
APPENDIX B.
ANCIENT AUTHORS.
We give the following brief notes on early works containing some reference to mineralogy, mining, or metallurgy, to indicate the literature available to Agricola and for historical notes bearing upon the subject. References to these works in the footnotes may be most easily consulted through the personal index.
GREEK AUTHORS.—Only a very limited Greek literature upon subjects allied to mining or natural science survives. The whole of the material of technical interest could be reproduced on less than twenty of these pages. Those of most importance are: Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Theophrastus (371-288 B.C.), Diodorus Siculus (1st Century B.C.), Strabo (64 B.C.-25 A.D.), and Dioscorides (1st Century A.D.).