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Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556.

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Blast furnace for smelting iron ore, 1556.

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Bellows supplying draught to a smelting furnace, 1556.

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Lead smelting, 1556.

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Draining a mine using a series of suction pumps powered by a water wheel, 1556.

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

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

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Reversible hoist for raising leather buckets from a mine shaft, 1556.

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Sectional view of a German mine, 1556.

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Smelting iron and hammering bars with a mechanical hammer, 1556.

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

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Sectional view of a mine showing shafts and galleries, 1556.

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A mine being drained by a rag-and-chain pump powered by an overshot water wheel, 1556.

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Refining copper: removing cakes of copper from the crucible and quenching in a tub of water, 1556.

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Steel production: a forge with bellows to produce draught, 1556.

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Washing for tin, 1556.

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Roasting copper ore in a furnace at C, 1556.

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Pump powered by men in a treadmill, 1556.

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Evaporating sea water in iron pots to obtain salt, 1556.

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Georgius Agricola, 16th century German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist.

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Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556.

Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556. This technique was used to extract lead, copper, silver and gold. The mill is powered by a water wheel and individual stamps are operated by cams on a drive shaft. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556).

Unique Identifier AR921375

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3831px × 3661px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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Black and white

GEORGIUS AGRICOLA

Oxford Science Archive

Print Collector1

SIXTEENTH CENTURY