An old refutation of divining.(Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556) From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Abbott, Steven | COPYRIGHT 2003 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In sixteenth-century Germany there was a flourishing mining industry. Finding new veins of metallic ores was of great importance. But the understanding of why the earth contained such veins was confused by two important schools of thought. The alchemists produced acres of alchebabble that sounded profound but said nothing useful. And there was a strong academic school of thought that said that God had hidden metals underground because they were intrinsically infernal and should rema...

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