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Mines and mineral resources
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A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.
Date: [1754]Reference: 29267i
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Travels from Vienna through lower Hungary : with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / by Richard Bright.
Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.Date: 1818
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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i- Books
Anleitung zu der Bergbaukunst nach ihrer Theorie und Ausübung : nebst einer Abhandlung von den Grundsätzen der Berg-Kammeralwissenschaft für die Kaiserl. Königl Schemnitzer Bergakademie / entworfen von Christoph Traugott Delius.
Delius, Christoph Traugott, 1728-1779.Date: 1773
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Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i