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BIBLIOTHECA METALLICA.

Abbildung Illustration and description of all smelting-house and mining officials and servants, according to their customary rank and order in proper mining attire. 4to Nuremberg 1721. with figures.
Abentheuer Adventures of various minerals, roots, etc., from mountains, caves, springs, rivers, etc., in China and Europe. 4to Frankfurt 1656.
Abhandlung Treatise on the magnet and its description. 4to.

• Alex: Achilles Grund-Ursachen Basic causes of earthquakes, as well as the nature of ores and minerals in the earth. 4to Frankfurt 1666.
  Acta Eruditorum Lipsiens. Proceedings of the Scholars of Leipzig 4to from the year 1682 and following.
• Acta Literaria Sueciæ Literary Proceedings of Sweden. 4to Uppsala and reprinted Rostock 1720, etc., with figures. 2 alphabets, 18 sheets.
  Acta, concerning Waldeck mining matters. fol.
  J. Fr. Æmilii, Investigation of magnetic motion. 8vo. Parma 1650.
  Georg. Agricola, in the history of minerals, he first broke the best path; for a judgment on him, see Henckel’s Pyritologia, p. 15. His writings are the following: