Tower mill, 1620. Artist: Unknown


Tower mill, 1620. Sectional view of a windmill showing grain being fed into millstones in the centre. The miller is turning the cap of the mill round so that the sails face into the wind. From the German edition of Le diverse et artifiiciose machine ... (The Various and Ingeniuos ) by Agostino Ramelli. (Leipzig, 1620).


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