The Invention of the Windmill, Nova Reperta, 16th Century

The Invention of the Windmill. Eleventh plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle, c.1600. Illustration of several wind mills in a landscape. A town with its churches is depicted in the background on the right. In the middle ground a woman carries a sack on her back, a man drives a horse-drawn carriage with more sacks, and a man draws a sack down from the top of a wind mill. In the foreground a man carries a sack on horseback, while a woman carries another one on her back

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1600 1600s Collaert Fluid Grain Grindstone Horsedrawn Hydraulics Inventions Mechanics Nova Reperta Sack Wheat Windmill

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