Prospecting with Divining Rods, 16th Century

Woodcut from Agricola's De Re Metallica showing men using divining rods to locate minerals which several men with digging tools are mining. Georgius Agricola (March 24, 1494 - November 21, 1555) was a German scholar known as the father of mineralogy'. His book De Re Metallica, published in 1556, was a treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with woodcuts illustrating processes to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and the many uses of water mills in mining. This image has been colorized

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