Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). Caricature of the German mineralogist Georgius Agricola (born Georg Bauer) holding a copy of his most famous work,'De re metallica' (On the nature of metals). Agricola worked as a doctor in a number of mining towns in Saxony,Germany. The majority of his time was not spent on medicine,but studying geology and mining. 'De re metallica',published a year after his death,not only contained detailed notes on rocks,minerals and geology but also mining technology and practice. Its publication lead to Agricola being considered the founder of geology as a discipline. Another of his works 'De natura fossilium' contained,for the first time,a classification of minerals according to their physical properties | |
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