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: Refining gold in Prague in 1574. Copperplate engraving

Refining gold in Prague in 1574. Copperplate engraving

Refining gold: furnaces, 2, 2, and operator, 9. The man near 4 is gradually heating a crucible surrounded by a ring of burning coals: to increase the heat coals were be raked into a smaller circle. From 1683 English edition of Lazarus Ercker Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten originally published in Prague in 1574. Copperplate engraving

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1574 1683 Allerfurnemisten Berckwercksarten Beschreibung Coals Crucible Ercker Ertzt Furnace Furnaces Gradually Heating Increase Lazarus Mineralischen Operator Raked Refining Smaller

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