M0016549: The distillation of nitric acid, 1556: illustration and first page of description

Date:
January 1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/148/98
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M0016549: The distillation of nitric acid, 1556: illustration and first page of description. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Agricola, De re metallica libri

Description

Page from Agricola, Georg: De re metallica libri XII..., Basle : H. Froben & N. Bischoff, 1556 including a woodcut illustration of distillation of nitric acid. The description of the process continues on two further pages. Related images: M0016549EB, M0016549EC

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January 1958

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/D/67

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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