Archive image from page 302 of De re metallica (1950). De re metallica deremetallica50agri Year: 1950 BOOK VII. 265 weights in one pan, and in the other, ore or metal as heavy as that weight. The third is the most delicate, and by this we weigh the beads of gold or silver, which, when the assay is completed, settle in the bottom of the cupel. But if anyone weighs lead in the second balance, or an ore in the third, he will do them much injur}'. Whatsoever small amount of metal is obtained from a centumpondium of the lesser weights of ore or metal alloy, the same greater weight of metal is smel
Archive image from page 302 of De re metallica (1950). De re metallica deremetallica50agri Year: 1950 BOOK VII. 265 weights in one pan, and in the other, ore or metal as heavy as that weight. The third is the most delicate, and by this we weigh the beads of gold or silver, which, when the assay is completed, settle in the bottom of the cupel. But if anyone weighs lead in the second balance, or an ore in the third, he will do them much injur}'. Whatsoever small amount of metal is obtained from a centumpondium of the lesser weights of ore or metal alloy, the same greater weight of metal is smelted from a ccnhimpondium of the greater weight of ore or metal alloy. A—First small balance. B—Second, C—Third, placed in a case. END OF BOOK VII.
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