18th century illustration of a gold processing - distilling out the mercury, melting and skimming on the ovens. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Ency

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18th century illustration of a gold processing - distilling out the mercury, melting and skimming on the ovens. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Location: London
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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