"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
— Sun

January 1, 1970

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Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556).