Before entering politics, Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou produced the first English translation of a famous 16th-century mining textbook, working from _____.

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De re metallica is a book in Latin cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola.

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