Talk:Georgius Agricola

Transfer from a duplicate page
The following is transferred here from Georgius Joseph Agricola. Hu 12:51, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Juice Agricola(21 October 1494 - 1555), or Georgius Joseph Agricola, is a scholar of German mining engineering. A boss of Pole Muller. He had a character to add a difficulty habit immediately. He wanted to often proceed to the spot, and he was rolled up in a mine accident many times, but he was each time survived miraculously.


 * == Animation works ==
 * "Juice Agricola" (in 1978, German)
 * A biography work. A voice actor of the part of Agricola is Greg Ayres.

I should bin it. Same user - has already posted similar stuff at Akhilleus Aksakov, which is being AfD'd as unverifiable nonsense, and Neunt of Axelrod is likely to go the same way. Tearlach 13:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I think so. I've nominated it for RFD.  &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-13 11:00Z 

Redirect backwards?
For the English-language version, shouldn't 'Georg_Agricola' redirect to 'Georgius_Agricola'? Right now this is the other way 'round. (Encyclopædia Britannica uses "Georgius").

Kevin Pfeiffer 212.99.207.136 17:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

looking for a good woodcut to illustrate fluorite
I am looking for a good woodcut to illustrate fluorine. Ideally addition of fluorite as a flux to smelting (hard for me to understand all his diagrams with all the letters and such, so there may be such an animal). if not that, anyting else with fluorspar in it.TCO (Reviews needed) 06:51, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Poor quality
This article is of poor quality: it is written like a novel. We read that the subject "...also devoted himself to...". It is difficult to see how one can be "devoted" to one thing and "also" to something else. There are uncited explicit quotations e.g. "to fill in the gaps in the art of healing". There are hyperbole which are out-of-place in an encyclopaedia e.g. "...woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process...", when it is clear that many relevant processes have been conceived since his death. There is poetry which is similarly out-of-place e.g. "...the town to which he had added such lustre" and "...he was not suffered to end his days in peace". There is mixed British and American spelling: there should be one or the other. The subject deserves better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike Shepherd (talk • contribs) 16:36, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi thank you for the feedback on the language: feel free to attempt the copy edits and clarification that you suggest would improve it. Wikipedia only gets better if you Be Bold!!!! and make changes when you feel they are appropriate, Sadads (talk) 14:55, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

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Factual errors
It seems unlikely that Maurice of Saxony was the one who appointed Agricola the court historiographer of Saxony, as Maurice was 9 yrs old in 1530. It must have been either his uncle George or his father Henry, right? Leaving this note here in case someone else has time to look into it. Iconofiler (talk) 03:19, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Not the only error; the article as it stands is full of them (where did they come from)? Yeah, George the Bearded was elector of Saxony till 1539, so forget the nine-year old's appointment (was Agricola ever appointed court historiographer?). According to the Hoovers, who did the 1912 translation of De Re Metallica, "In 1546...began Agricola's activity in public life, for in that year he was elected a Burgher of Chemnitz; and in the same year Duke Maurice appointed him Burgomaster--an office which he held for four terms." (p. ix of the introduction) I'll make some changes; maybe someone will come up with an answer to the historiographer question.Isidorpax2 (talk) 03:52, 4 March 2019 (UTC)