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	Agricola - Wikisource
		Agricola, having been sent by Mucianus to conduct a levy of troops, and having done his work with integrity and energy, was appointed to command the 20th Legion, which had been slow to take the new oath of allegiance, and the retiring officer of which was reported to be acting disloyally.
		Meanwhile Agricola, though summer was past and the detachments were scattered throughout the province, though the soldiers' confident anticipation of inaction for that year would be a source of delay and difficulty in beginning a campaign, and most advisers thought it best simply to watch all weak points, resolved to face the peril.
		Agricola, by the repression of these abuses in his very first year of office, restored to peace its good name, when, from either the indifference or the harshness of his predecessors, it had come to be as much dreaded as war.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Agricola (9958 words)

	Agricola (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Agricola (full Latin title: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c.
		The proud tone of the Agricola recalls the style of the laudationes funebres (funeral speeches).
		A quick resume of the career of Agricola prior to his mission in Britain is followed by a narration of the conquest of the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agricola_(book) (910 words)

	Looking beyond Aristotle and Alchemy
		Agricola drank deeply from the wellsprings of ancient knowledge, completing the courses for the doctor's degrees in medicine, philosophy, and natural science at Bologna and Padua and capping off his clinical studies as a physician in Venice in 1526.
		Agricola's public appointment coincided with the outbreak of what became known as the Schmalkaldic War, Charles' chance to deal with the league of rebellious Protestant leaders after the unwelcome diversion of a generation of territorial war with Francis I of France.
		Agricola noted all the separating processes for basic metals and was the first author to describe gold amalgamation with mercury, the various gold-smelting processes, cementation (the process of separating precious metals) with niter, and the latest lead-smelting techniques.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1994/march/ns4.cfm (2932 words)

	Georgius Agricola (1494-1555)
		Agricola moved in 1536 to the city of Chemnitz, also an important center of the mining industry, and was elected Burgomaster there in 1546.
		Agricola noted that rocks were laid down in definite layers, or strata, and that these layers occurred in a consistent order and could be traced over a wide area.
		Agricola also wrote the first book on physical geology, De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum (1546), notable for its descriptions of wind and water as powerful geological forces, and for its explanation of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as produced by subterranean vapors and gases heated by the Earth's internal heat.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/agricola.html (950 words)

	Agricola, Georgius (1494-1555): World of Earth Science
		In this book, he summarized much of what was known by the ancient Greeks and Romans about fossils, minerals, and gemstones.
		Despite the remarkable observations made by Agricola in De Natura Fossileum, De Ortu et Causis Subteraneum, and at least four other books, it is his seventh and final book, De Re Metallica (On the subject of metals), published in 1556 (one year after his death) that many geologists consider to be his finest work.
		Given the remarkable depth and scope of Georgius Agricola's research and publications it is not surprising that many modern geologists and historians consider his contributions essential to the early development of the science of geology.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/agricola-georgius (589 words)

	Agricola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Agricola (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae), Tacitus's biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola.
		Sextus Calpurnius Agricola a Roman governor of the mid second century AD Auster Agricola an unsuccesful aerial topdressing aircraft from the 1950s.
		Agricola - a secret NCO school operated by the Szare Szeregi in occupied Warsaw during World War II, as part of the underground education net.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agricola (206 words)

	The birth of Finnish literature — Virtual Finland
		Agricola was sent to Wittenberg in 1536 with the express purpose that he should be trained to translate the Bible into Finnish.
		Agricola, who became Bishop of Turku in 1554, is known as the father of the written Finnish language because of his extensive literary production; his influence is apparent even to this day.
		Agricola had already had to participate in the peace negotiations with Russia in 1556-1557, and died from the strain of the journey.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/kirjaeng.html (2649 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Agricola (book)
		The Agricola (Latin title: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae) is a book by Tacitus, written c.
		During the reign of Domitian, Agricola, a faithful imperial officer, had been the most important general involved in the conquest of a great part of Britain.
		The pride of Agricola is an apologia for a large part of the governing class: people who, not desiring martyrdom, had collaborated with the Flavian family and had made a valid contribution to lawmaking, to provincial government, to the enlargement of the limits of the empire and to the defence of its borders.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/De_vita_Iulii_Agricolae (700 words)

	Calgacus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Calgacus (sometimes Galgacus) was the leader of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84.
		The only historical source that features him is Tacitus' Agricola which describes him as "the most distinguished for birth and valour among the chieftans".
		Calgacus is not mentioned during or after the battle and he is not named as one of the hostages Agricola took with him after putting the Caledonians to flight.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calgacus (208 words)

	Mikael_Agricola LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His only son, Christian Agricola (Christianus Michaelis Agricola), was born December 11, 1550, and became the bishop of Tallinn in 1584.
		In theological preface Agricola tells that his translation was based on Greek original text (familiar to him particularly from time with Philipp Melanchthon), Latin collection by Erasmus of Rotterdam, German translation by Martin Luther, as well as the Swedish bibles by Olaus Petri.
		This book was influenced heavily by Johannes Bugenhagen, a teacher in Wittenberg.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Mikael_Agricola (1099 words)

	Agricola Quincentennial
		As recorded in one of Agricola's own works, the time he did not spend in the practice of medicine was devoted to the study and exploration of everything he could find that dealt with mining.
		Agricola was a prolific writer in many disciplines, but is especially respected for his numerous books on mining and other topics dealing with the earth sciences.
		It is comprised of twelve "books" which cover topics ranging from the philosophy of mining and the qualities of a good miner to the arts of exploration, mining, assaying, and smelting.
	fgms.home.att.net /agricola.htm (838 words)

	Georg Agricola at AllExperts
		Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus, (1530) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.
		In spite of the early proof that Agricola had given of the tolerance of his own religious attitude, he was not suffered to end his days in peace.
		He remained to the end a staunch Catholic, though all Chemnitz had gone over to the Lutheran creed; and it is said that his life was ended by a fit of apoplexy brought on by a heated discussion with a Protestant divine.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/georg_agricola.htm (959 words)

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		Structure: This book (Agricola and The Germania) is both a biography of the author's father-in-law (Julius Agricola) and a partial history of the Roman army, the British Isles, and the German tribes.
		The Agricola begins by introducing the subject in the first 3 chapters; in chapters 4-9 the life and career of Agricola are followed up to his governorship of Britain; chapters 10-17 describe the historical Britain; chapters 18-38 describe Agricola's military conquests; chapters 39-46 describe Agricola's life in retirement and his eventual death.
		Julius Agricola is preserved on a lead pipe discovered on the site of the legionary fortress at Chester; and a few letters which formed part of his name appear on one of the surviving fragments of an inscription found in the forum at Verulamium.
	www.bts.edu /trobisch/BookReviews/BookReviewsNTBackground2006.htm (12107 words)

	History of geology--Agricola
		Agricola, who is often refered to as the "father of mineralogy," was born and spent most of his life in Saxony, which is now part of eastern Germany and the Czech Republic.
		Agricola was born on the threshold of European Renaissance.
		Agricola was married (perhaps twice) and had several children, although none of his descendents have been traced more than two generations.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/agricola/agricola.htm (1143 words)

	agricola.html
		Agricola was a staunch Catholic and Chemnitz was a hotbed of the new Protestant movement, and he
		Agricola observed that rocks were in strata of a consistent order, and that these layers could be
		Georg Agricola, a contemporary of Copernicus, Luther and da Vinci, is regarded as the "father" of
	www.exulanten.com /agricola.html (2256 words)

	Tacitus - Psychology Central
		The fifth book contains—as a prelude to the account of Titus's suppression of the Great Jewish Revolt—a short ethnographic survey of the ancient Jews and is an invaluable record of the educated Romans' attitude towards that people.
		Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books 7-12 presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius.
		Agricola, 44–45: "[Agricola] was spared those later years during which Domitian, leaving now no interval or breathing space of time, but, as it were, with one continuous blow, drained the life-blood of the Commonwealth.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Tacitus (4449 words)

	De re metallica libri XII: Rare books: Exhibits: MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections
		First published (posthumously) in 1556, the book is remarkable as one of the earliest works of natural science to be based on careful observation, as opposed to speculation.
		Born Georg Bauer, the man later known as Agricola studied medicine and became physician and apothecary in a prominent mining district in central Europe.
		Weffring’s woodcuts served to illustrate seven editions of the book published between 1556 and 1657, two of which (1561 and 1621) are among the many rare books available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections, a department of the MIT Libraries.
	libraries.mit.edu /archives/exhibits/rarebooks/agricola/index.html (239 words)

	Tacitus: Agricola: Book 1 [40] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But the salary usually granted to a proconsul, and which he had himself given to some governors, he did not bestow on Agricola, either because he was offended at its not having been asked, or was warned by his conscience that he might be thought to have purchased the refusal which he had commanded.
		Agricola was born on the 13th of June, in the third consulate of Caius Cæsar; he died on the 23rd of August, during the consulate of Collega and Priscus, being in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
		As his daughter and his wife survived him, it may be thought that he was even fortunate--fortunate, in that while his honours had suffered no eclipse, while his fame was at its height, while his kindred and his friends still prospered, he escaped from the evil to come.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/Tacitus/ag01040.htm (1461 words)

	Mikael Agricola at AllExperts
		His only son, Christian Agricola (Christianus Michaelis Agricola), was born December 11, 1550, and became the bishop of Tallinn in 1584.
		In the theological preface Agricola tells that his translation was based on the Greek original text (familiar to him particularly from his time with Melanchthon), a Latin collection by Erasmus of Rotterdam, a German translation by Martin Luther, as well as the Swedish bibles by Olaus Petri.
		This book was influenced heavily by Johannes Bugenhagen, a teacher in Wittenberg.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/mi/mikael_agricola.htm (1213 words)

	Minerals I
		Agricola describes every aspect of mining, from how to identify minerals to 16th-century techniques for crushing ore to the uses of minerals and the diseases that they could cause (see the Classics link at the right to see original woodcuts from De Re Metallica).
		Agricola’s book remained a mining standard for nearly two hundred years and is considered the first major contribution to the science of mineralogy.
		It was not until the 1900's, 350 years after Agricola's book, that scientists were able to determine the specific chemical composition of minerals.
	www.visionlearning.com /library/module_viewer.php?mid=119&l=&c3= (2002 words)

	Tacitus: Agricola: Book 1 [20]
		This Agricola then began to defend with a line of forts, and, as all the country to the south was now occupied, the enemy were pushed into what might be called another island.
		In the fifth year of the war Agricola, himself in the leading ship, crossed the Clota, and subdued in a series of victories tribes hitherto unknown.
		In that part of Britain which looks towards Ireland, he posted some troops, hoping for fresh conquests rather than fearing attack, inasmuch as Ireland, being between Britain and Spain and conveniently situated for the seas round Gaul, might have been the means of connecting with great mutual benefit the most powerful parts of the empire.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/Tacitus/ag01020.htm (1774 words)

	Book Summary : The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics) by Cornelius Tacitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 77, Tacitus married the daughter of Agricola, governor of Roman Britain.
		Tacitus wrote The Agricola as a sort of eulogy for his father-in-law, and in it he recounts Agricola's career.
		Tacitus also wrote The Germania, in which he provides a colorful description of the indigenous tribes of Germany during the time of the Roman Empire.There is something to be said of the style with which Tacitus writes, and that is to say that his accounts of Agricola and Germania are full of wit.
	www.any-book.com /summary1/0140442413.htm (318 words)

	agricola
		Agricola's magnum opus, for which the treatise Bermannus was a prelude, was De re metallica, published posthumously in 1556.
		In De natura fossilium (the book on which rests his right to be regarded as the father of mineralogy), Agricola offers a classification of minerals (called "fossils" at that time) in terms of geometrical form (spheres, cones, plates).
		He was probably the first to distinguish between "simple" substances and "compounds." In Agricola's day, chemical knowledge was almost nonexistent, and there was no proper chemical analysis (other than analysis of ores by the use of fire), so the classification of ores was necessarily crude.
	www.spaceship-earth.de /Biograph/agricola.htm (945 words)

	Metallurgy Summary
		Agricola gave two or three variant types for each machine, all of their massive wheels and shafts built from heavy timber, using iron only for ties and bearings to reduce costs.
		Agricola paid much attention to the pumping and ventilation machinery that were vital for extending mining deeper once easily accessible ores were exhausted.
		Agricola had to defend mining against charges that it caused diseases, and deflect modern-sounding complaints that it polluted the soil and water-courses, and that its huge demand for wood as fuel and building materials caused deforestation, destroying the eco-systems of birds and animals eaten by humans.
	www.bookrags.com /Metallurgy (4218 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Agricola was of course Tacitus's late father-in-law, and the work is an attempt to vindicate the former British governor after he had fallen from grace.
		Suffice to say that if Agricola had been half the military genius he appeared to be in his son-in-law's book, he would never had been summarily recalled to Rome.
		The first is a biography of Agricola, who was the most succesful Roman governor of the Britons and the second piece is an account of the Germanic race, both written by Tacitus, who was the son-in-law of Agricola.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140442413 (1206 words)

	Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two future governors served under him: Quintus Petillius Cerialis as legate of Legio IX Hispana, and Gnaeus Julius Agricola as a military tribune attached to Legio II Augusta, but seconded to Suetonius's staff.
		In 61 Suetonius made an assault on the island of Mona (Anglesey), a refuge for British fugitives and a stronghold of the druids.
		Suetonius was captured by Vitellius and obtained a pardon by claiming that he had deliberately lost the battle for Otho, although this was almost certainly untrue.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suetonius_Paullinus (642 words)

	Tacitus: Agricola
		Cnaeus Julius Agricola was born at the ancient and famous colony of Forum Julii.
		Agricola was born on the 13th of June, in the third consulate of Caius Caesar; he died on the 23rd of August, during the consulate of Collega and Priscus, being in the fifty-sixth year of his age.
		Agricola did not see the senate-house besieged, or the senate hemmed in by armed men, or so many of Rome’s noblest ladies exiles and fugitives.
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