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The earliest recorded analytical methods are those for the precious metals of gold and silver. Of major importance for later assayers are the detailed and beautifully illustrated accounts of fire assay by Agricola and by Ercker in the sixteenth century.

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Burns, D.T. (2014). Important Figures in Analytical Chemistry from Germany: From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. In: Important Figures of Analytical Chemistry from Germany in Brief Biographies. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12151-2_2

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