Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame Mens 800m Final

Mens 800m Final

Landscape with a windmill

'Packing up for the Holidays'

View of the Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane

Referred to in the text as 'The active gibbon'

Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame Mens 800m FinalThe 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).