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Fun Find - President Hoover made Mining Engineering History
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Summary: Herbert Hoover (later president of USA) and Lou Hoover (his wife) in 1912 undertake an English translation of Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallica, a seminal text on mining engineering that only existed as a medieval Latin text published in 1556. This translation established the historical roots of Mining Engineering. On June 30, 1914 the Hovers received the first awarded gold medal by the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America for their translation of Agricola.
Who knew!
The Discovery of a Professional Tradition: Herbert and Lou Hoover’s Translation of De Re Metallica
Posted on September 16, 2016
By Thomas F. Schwartz
https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2.....-re-metallica/
De re metallica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
"DE RE METALLICA"
TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1556
with
Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon
the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical
Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law
from the earliest times to the 16th Century
BY
HERBERT CLARK HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Institute of Mining Engineers,
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Société des Ingéniéurs
Civils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers,
Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc., etc.
AND
LOU HENRY HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Association for the
Advancement of Science, The National Geographical Society,
Royal Scottish Geographical Society, etc., etc.
.
1950
Dover Publications, Inc.
NEW YORK
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/380.....-h/38015-h.htm
Who knew!
The Discovery of a Professional Tradition: Herbert and Lou Hoover’s Translation of De Re Metallica
Posted on September 16, 2016
By Thomas F. Schwartz
https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2.....-re-metallica/
De re metallica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
"DE RE METALLICA"
TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1556
with
Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon
the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical
Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law
from the earliest times to the 16th Century
BY
HERBERT CLARK HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Institute of Mining Engineers,
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Société des Ingéniéurs
Civils de France, American Institute of Civil Engineers,
Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc., etc.
AND
LOU HENRY HOOVER
A. B. Stanford University, Member American Association for the
Advancement of Science, The National Geographical Society,
Royal Scottish Geographical Society, etc., etc.
.
1950
Dover Publications, Inc.
NEW YORK
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/380.....-h/38015-h.htm
