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    (similar to the greenhouse system), whereby mirrorstone refers to Pliny's lapis specularis, believed to have been sheet mica: Indeed, he was never without it;...
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    (similar to the greenhouse system), whereby mirrorstone refers to Pliny's lapis specularis, believed to have been sheet mica. "Indeed, he was never without it;...
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    oiled cloth known as specularia or with sheets of selenite (a.k.a. lapis specularis), according to the description by Pliny the Elder. The next biggest...
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    at their sacrifice". Pliny the Elder mentions the exploitation of lapis specularis, a variety of translucent gypsum much appreciated at the time for the...
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    large-scale gold mines such as that at las Médulas to the extraction of lapis specularis. Some of the most important scientists of the Hellenistic period came...
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    Gaditano – El "Garum Gaditanum" TRAIANVS – Las explotaciones mineras de Lapis Specularis en Hispania Tesorillo.com – Algunas cecas provinciales romanas Tesorillo...
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    Martín, Alejandro; Villaverde Mora, Fernando (2005). "La mina romana de Lapis Specularis de 'La Mora Encantada' en Torrejoncillo del Rey (Cuenca)" (PDF). Minería...
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  • Hispanic smelters. Another important mineral extracted in Hispania was lapis specularis, a type of translucent gypsum, much appreciated as a mineral for the...
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    viros de rebus in Bononiensi tractu indigenis, ut est lapis illuminabilis et lapis specularis (in Latin). Bononiae. 1634. Clarorum aliquot doctorum Bononiensium...
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