How many volumes make up the work “De re Metallica libri XII”?
Five
Twelve
Twenty
One
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De re Metallica libri XII, or De re Metallica (English: On the Nature of Metals), is a Latin treatise on mining, metallurgy and assaying written in 1556 by Georgius Agricola, a German physician and metallurgist who is considered to be the father of mineralogy. It is divided into twelve volumes, each of which covers a different aspect of metallurgy.
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