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AUTHORS: Achillini, Alessandro Agricola, Georgius Alberti, Leone Battista Archimedes Aristotle Babington, John Baif, Lazare de Baldi, Bernardino Baliani, Giovanni Battista Barocius, Franciscus Benedetti, Giovanni Battista Berga, Antonio Biancani, Giuseppe Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso Borro, Girolamo Boyle, Robert Branca, Giovanni Buonamici, Francesco Buteo, Johannes Cardano, Girolamo Casati, Paolo Castelli, Benedetto Cataneo, Girolamo Ceredi, Giuseppe Ceva, Giovanni Cicero, M. Tullius Commandino, Federico Delfino, Federico Descartes, Rene Epicurus Euclid Fabri, Honore Foscarini, Paolo Antonio Galilei, Galileo Gassendi, Pierre Ghetaldi, Marino Giphanius, Hubert Guevara, Giovanni di Heron Alexandrinus Heytesbury, William Hutton, Charles Jordanus de Nemore Landi, Bassiano Lorini, Buonaiuto Lucretius Manuzio, Paolo Marci of Kronland, Johannes Marcus Mellini, Domenico Mersenne, Marin Monantheuil, Henri de Monte, Guidobaldo del Morelli, Gregorio Newton, Isaac Pacioli, Luca Pappus Alexandrinus Salusbury, Thomas Santbech, Daniel Schott, Gaspar Schreck, Johann Terrenz Stelliola, Niccolò Antonio Stevin, Simon Tartaglia, Niccolò Thomaz, Alvaro Thucydides Torricelli, Evangelista Valerio, Luca Varro, Michel Vitruvius Pollio Wolff, Christian von |
Agricola, Georgius (actually Georg Bauer) born on 24.3.1494 in Glauchau, died on 21.11.1555 in Chemnitz From 1518 until 1522 Georgius Agricola was rector in Zwickau, where he taught Latin and Greek. He then studied medicine in Leipzig and Italy and worked as municipal doctor in Sankt Joachimsthal from 1527. In 1531 he moved to Chemnitz, where he received an appanage and free housing from the Elector Moritz and later became municipal physician and mayor. Here he began studying mineralogy and mining, whereby as a doctor he was particularly interested in mineralogical remedies. He was the first systematic mineralogist in Germany and is considered the founder of mineralogy. In keeping with their external appearance, he distinguished between simple and compound minerals; he further subdivided the simple minerals into earths, concretions, stones and metals. This system served as the foundation for all further mineralogical works well into the 18th century. Georgius Agricola is the founder of rational German mining, whereby he was skilled at successfully combining theory and praxis. His work De natura fossilium of 1546 is regarded as the first manual of mineralogy. In his book De re metallica, which also contains many alchemistic ideas, Georgius Agricola describes the mining and metallurgical technology of the Erzgebirg region.
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