The metallurgy and assaying of the preci
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Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr.
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Article
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1877
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In my last lecture I traced the history of gold from its earliest mention in the Bible, in the marvelous accounts of the early classic authors, and of the alchemical writers of the middle ages, down to the production of the present day. Silver was likewise known from the most ancient historic perio