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De Re Metallica
Three furnaces for smelting ore: at L smelter who pours alloy of into moulds; next opens tap-hole; mine captain carries cake to be weighed, from 1912 English translation of Georgius Agricola's DE RE METALLICA (1556) by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry
Date taken:1901
Size:711 x 1280 pixels (9.9 x 17.8 inches)
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