Mercury mine and brassworks, Italy
Date
1665
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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width (paper): 222mm
height (paper): 310mm
height (paper): 310mm
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Two figures showing a method of mercury extraction at the mines in Friuli, Northern Italy and a contrivance for blowing the fire using falling water at the brassworks in Tivoli, Italy.
Fig I. Diagram of the equipment used to extract mercury, showing water passing through a vessel (containing the extracted mineral) and overflowing into three round sieves with pits below, washing the mercury from the earth.
Fig II. Diagram of the apparatus used for creating wind using falling water, showing river water entering through a launder and falling into a vertical shaft, forcing air out through a horizontal pipe, creating a bellows.
Illustrations to an Extract of a letter, lately written from Venice by the learned Doctor Walter Pope, to the Reverend Dean of Rippon, Doctor John Wilkins, concerning the mines of mercury in Friuli; and a way of producing wind by the fall of water, Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 2 (3 April 1665) pp. 21-26. Read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 January 1665, Journal Book Original JBO/2/62. The original paper is transcribed in the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/1/70 and copied again in the Letter Book Copy LBC/1 page 235.
Fig I. Diagram of the equipment used to extract mercury, showing water passing through a vessel (containing the extracted mineral) and overflowing into three round sieves with pits below, washing the mercury from the earth.
Fig II. Diagram of the apparatus used for creating wind using falling water, showing river water entering through a launder and falling into a vertical shaft, forcing air out through a horizontal pipe, creating a bellows.
Illustrations to an Extract of a letter, lately written from Venice by the learned Doctor Walter Pope, to the Reverend Dean of Rippon, Doctor John Wilkins, concerning the mines of mercury in Friuli; and a way of producing wind by the fall of water, Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, issue 2 (3 April 1665) pp. 21-26. Read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 January 1665, Journal Book Original JBO/2/62. The original paper is transcribed in the Letter Book of the Royal Society LBO/1/70 and copied again in the Letter Book Copy LBC/1 page 235.
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