Lazarus Ercker, Fleta Minor the Laws of Art and Nature in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Enlarging the Bodies of Confined Metal (1683 - 1685)
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Date
1683 1685
Author
Lexicon title
Essays Explaining Metallick Words: Alphabetically Disposed, as a Dictionary or Index to the whole.
Book title
Fleta Minor. The Laws Of Art and Nature, In Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of confin'd Metals. In Two Parts. The First contains Assays of Lazarus Erckern, Chief Prover, or Assay-Master General of the Empire of Germany) in V. Books: originally written by him in the Teutonick Language and now translated into English. The Second contains Essays on Metallick Words, as a Dictionary to many pleasing Discourses
Publication place
London
Printer
Thoms Dawks
Publisher
Author
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- metallurgy
- mining
Summary
Translates a 16th-century work in German by Lazarus Erckern and offers a new dictionary of metallurgical terms
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
133 (in part 2)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 344
sample: LIQUATION, L. Liquatio, from Aqua & liquidus: A liquor or moisture: and liquation is a term in this Art of Chymistry for one of the Methods in dissolving Metals, and the word liquifaction of the like sense, and from the same Radix is also applyed to Metals when they are melted by the heat of fire, or Sun: See Conglutination. (s2r)
number: 344
sample: LIQUATION, L. Liquatio, from Aqua & liquidus: A liquor or moisture: and liquation is a term in this Art of Chymistry for one of the Methods in dissolving Metals, and the word liquifaction of the like sense, and from the same Radix is also applyed to Metals when they are melted by the heat of fire, or Sun: See Conglutination. (s2r)
Wing
P 1906
Facsimiles
EEBO images 200-
Sources
translation of Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralischcen Ertzt-und-Berckwercksarten
