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JACQUES AU-

BERT OF VENDÔME'S

A BRIEF AND CLEAR

EXPLANATION OF THE

CAUSES AND ORIGIN

of metals against the Chemists.

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Although by the notion of the name and its etymology, whatever is sought and dug up in the bowels of the earth is called "metals" metalla, yet in the proper significance of their substance and essence, they are fossil and mineral bodies by their nature: hard, meltable, and which, once melted, are returned to their natural form, though not all are ductile. For stibium Stibium antimony ore, which many call antimony antimonium, although according to Georgius Agricola Georgio Agricolæ a famous 16th-century mineralogist and author and many other students of nature