Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the year 1770. Described in a series of letters ... on the mines and mountains of these different countries ... / To which is added, John James Ferber's mineralogical history of Bohemia. Translated from the German ... by R.E. Raspe.

  • Born, Ignaz, Edler von, 1742-1791
Date:
1777
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Credit: Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the year 1770. Described in a series of letters ... on the mines and mountains of these different countries ... / To which is added, John James Ferber's mineralogical history of Bohemia. Translated from the German ... by R.E. Raspe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■xvi / every one may judge by the valuable writings of Georg. Agricola, (born 1494-—l5S5) that excel¬ lent author of immenfe and practical erudition, who for thefe lafi 250 years has flood unparalleled and foremoft amongft the duffleal authors on mining *, and as during thefe laft 300 years, Germany has pro¬ duced a Copernicus, Purbach, Kepler, Sturmius, Leibnitz, Wolf, Kaeftner, Meyer, Segner, Euler, .Lambert-, Albertus Magnus, (born 1193—1280J Paracelfus Theophraftus, 1493—-1541J Sen- nert, Beecher, Kunckel, Stahl, Glauber, Hof¬ mann, Juncker, Vogel, Marggraf, Model,- Newmann, Cartheufer, Ercker, Cramer, Schlut¬ ter, Geliert, Lehmann, Poerner, Pott, Gerhard, Jufti, Waiz, Spielmann, and Meyer,'-—hefides many other unmonumented but great names in the biftory of mathematicks and of chemiftry \ it is not without fome juftice that foreign nations have con- fidered the Germans as their mafters in the art of mining, and not without fome good reafon, that the Germans have firft endeavoured in their writings and academies to give this art that fcientificalform which it is capable of and to keep pace in it with the Eng- lifh, Swedes, Italians, and French, who of late have begun fuccefsfully to emulate their example. The objebl of this art is, 1. The working and building of the mines in which they are found$, 2. Their