Salt extraction from brine sources, Brine, which bubbles hot from the ground, is scooped up in pans, which boil in the brine until the brine boils, woodcut, p. 449, (Liber duodecimus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies (...). Basileae: [Froben], 1556

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Salt extraction from brine sources, Brine, which bubbles hot from the ground, is scooped up in pans, which boil in the brine until the brine boils, woodcut, p. 449, (Liber duodecimus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed & per effigies (...). Basileae: [Froben], 1556.

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