Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame Landscape with a windmill

Landscape with a windmill

Early Bentley outside a cottage

The sitter is white-haired and has a small beard and moustache

Details of capitals

Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame Landscape with a windmillThe upper picture on this plate is part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's 'Miraculum Mundi', and shows the furnace arrangement for 'the best and most profitable manner of melting the Ores of Gold, Silver, and Lead by the flame of wood only.' The lower illustration, part of the later 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi', depicts 'the Press, by whose help the Juice is plentifully pressed out of Wood, without great labour, for the making of Salt Petre' (nitre).