Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-30
Books mentioned on What's the deal with dowsing?
Dowsing, aka water-witching has been around a long time. And you might be surprised that's still a thing.
Josh Clark discussed De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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De Re Metallica
Discussed“there was somebody a mining expert named uh jorg aracola who talked about dowsing and divining rods in a way that he wasn't like hey this is what this is like as if people understood what it was right in his book day Ray Metallica was that really what it was called”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The radium girls
“I asked for the book radium Girls by Kate Moore for Christmas from the dial painters episode uh and I've just finished it”