Transactions . sintroduced into England by Sisson more than 150 years ago. Books on Mining and Surveying.—The writer has not had theopportunity of examining either of the three copies known to * Bird published his system of dividing one year before the Duke published anaccount of his new method of dividing, and of his micrometrical microscope. 732 REMARKS i POM 81 RVEYING [NSTRUMENTS. exisl of the first German work upon mines and mine-surveying,published about 1504-5, with later editions in 1515, etc.; butthe Director of the Freiberg Mining Academy was goodenough to obtain a photograph of the
Transactions . sintroduced into England by Sisson more than 150 years ago. Books on Mining and Surveying.—The writer has not had theopportunity of examining either of the three copies known to * Bird published his system of dividing one year before the Duke published anaccount of his new method of dividing, and of his micrometrical microscope. 732 REMARKS i POM 81 RVEYING [NSTRUMENTS. exisl of the first German work upon mines and mine-surveying,published about 1504-5, with later editions in 1515, etc.; butthe Director of the Freiberg Mining Academy was goodenough to obtain a photograph of the title-page, with the titleof Eyn wolgeordent und niltzlich bilchlin wie man Bergwerck suchenmi finden sol, etc.,* and as the first and succeeding editions of Fro. 5. tymvolqeoibemvnb niit^ Itcbbucbttn/wtemanlSergwercPfucbenvn fm&enfol/t>on alUrhy tYtetaWmit feinenfigurm nad) gelegenbevt De£ QcbirQs artlid) anges 3crgt/tTTit «nl)anc$en&en 3Setcrtm* men / Sen anfabmbzn bergleut* tenvaft&mfthd).. Title-Page of the Earliest Known German Work on Mining, 1515. this book are exceedingly rare, a reproduction of the title-pagemay be of interest. Fig. 5 represents a copy from the editionof 1515. The two old dials, Figs. 141 and 142,f were alsoobtained from this edition. * Secretarys Note.—The full translation of the title is as follows : A well-arranged and use/id Utile book: How Mines should be sought and found, of all kindsof metal; with its figures suitably indicated according to the circumstances of the country-rock. With appended mining terms, very serviceable to working miners. The word an-fahenden is a misprint for anfahrenden—, going to (the mine)—still the tech-nical term among German miners for going underground to work.—E. W. B. f Trans., xxxi., 36, 37. i:i M LRKfi i P0H Bl i:\ Bl [NO INSTRUMENTS, i 18 In an old Latin book in the possession of the writer,* manydiagrams occur representing surveyors of thai period takingaltitudes, distances, depths, and other
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