Before the Freiberg Mining Academie was founded in 1766, no one person
may be named as mining engineer. As the result, no one person may be
named as pure mining specialist or mining scientist.
>From another hand, first students learned from specialists.
Look, if you only begins to build a house, you cannot live in this
building. When roof cover a walls, we can discuss a building that may be
named as 'primitive', 'castle' or 'palace'. Agricola - is founder. His
book looks like a scientific report in his some chapters that may be
compiled with his own experience.
Tony Brewis wrote:
> Bernard,
> I am not disputing the enormous depth of knowledge which
> Agricola displayed in mining technology ( I only have the 1950
> Dover reprint of De Re Metallica), but I was merely pointing out
> that he had many other skills, and that his profession was
> medicine, not mining.
> I think we can only admire people of that era for the breadth of
> subjects they dared to tackle. I believe Christoper Wren was
> also an astronomer, for example.
> I reiterate the point that, in those days, none of these learned
> people thought of themselves as scientists, as the term science,
> in the way that we now think of it, had not been introduced.
> They all thought of themselves as philosophers.
> How they accomplished all that they did is simply mind-boggling.
> Tony Brewis
Pavel N. Dmitriev
St.Petersburg Mining Institute
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