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Georg Agricola (1490-1555)
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    Georg Agricola, a younger contemporary of Paracelsus whose real name was Georg Bauer, and who was born in Saxony, Germany, is often regarded as the father of modern mineralology. He studied philology and then went to Italy where he graduated in medicine in 1525. On …

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