Title

Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683. 1) Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature. 2,2) Side furnaces with receivers on stools, (4,4). On the right of the top shelf is a glass vessel shaped like an Hermetic vase. From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker. (Prague, 1574).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1683

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B65_444

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (2,8Mb) / 12,3in x 15,8in / 3689 x 4732 (300dpi)

Keywords

glass people male working work technology man men industry worker metal science guy silver gold chemical chemistry century vessel precious metal concept B&W furnace chemical industry MONOCHROME 17th century laboratory equipment black & white black and white B W refining 16th century sixteenth century workers seventeenth century Oxford Science Archive athanor industrial chemistry metal industry engraving Unknown Lazarus Ercker Ercker Lazarus Lazarus Ercker engraving