From Latinde (“about”) re (“thing”) (ablative of res)
Sentence Examples
In 1912, in collaboration with his wife, he published as a sumptuous folio, with reproductions of the illustrations of the first edition (1556), an English translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica.
As against Realism he maintains consistently Res de re non praedicatur; genera and species, therefore, which are predicated of the individual subject, cannot be treated as things or substances.
In the edition of 158 r of the De re metallica by Georg Agricola, there is a woodcut showing the interior of a German glass factory, and glass vessels both finished and unfinished.
Georg Agricola, De re metallica (Basel, 1556); Percy Bate, English Table Glass (n.d.); G.
The De re publica of Cicero is supposed to be founded on one of Dicaearchus's works.