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Smelting of copper, 1683.

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Assayer testing samples of gold or silver using a balance, 1683. Artist: Lazarus Ercker

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Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683.

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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.

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Assayer testing samples of gold and silver, 1683.

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Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580.

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Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683.

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Production of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.

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Blast furnaces, 1683.

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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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Refining copper using the 'Hungarian' process, 1683.

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Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.

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Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.

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Milling the edges of coins, Royal Mint, London, 1891.

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Coining press at the Royal Mint, London, 1891.

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Cutting coin blanks from metal strips, Royal Mint, London, 1897.

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Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead), 1556.

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Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866.

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Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683.

Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683. Copper is melted (1) while an apprentice (9) soaks birch twigs in water. When the copper is poured onto the twigs it forms grains. It is then ready to be alloyed with silver being heated at (7). From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker, first published in 1580.

Unique Identifier AR924318

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3641px × 4799px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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Black and white

Lazarus Ercker;Ercker

Oxford Science Archive

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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

SIXTEENTH CENTURY