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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.

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

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Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683.

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Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 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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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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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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Blast furnaces, 1683.

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Refining copper using the 'Hungarian' process, 1683.

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

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Assayer testing samples of gold and silver, 1683.

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

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Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556.

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Blast furnace for smelting iron ore, 1556.

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

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Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556.

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Crushing gold bearing ores in mills similar in principle to flour mills, 1556.

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Washing ore to extract gold, 1683.

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. The solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth. Gold, being the heaviest ingredient, is separated out on the way. From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker. (Prague, 1574).

Unique Identifier AR925241

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3578px × 4881px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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Oxford Science Archive

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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

SIXTEENTH CENTURY