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Image Gallery

Caduceus from Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII …	Diagram of mine workings in book VI, "Machines for Drawing Heavy Vapours off from Tunnels" in Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii
Illustration from Georgii Agricolae ... De re metallica libri XII	p. 152 of Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii
p. 276 of Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii	p. 384 of Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii
p. 90 of Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii	The image shows mine workers sieving material through both dry and wet sieves from Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii, qvibu officia,instrumenta, machinae...
The pages on display here illustrate how furnaces are used to refine metals for the making of coins.	Title page from Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri xii

Book

De la pirotechnia	Early accounts of petroleum in the United States
Petroleum	Proceedings of the Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society v. 1 - v.9