Fire setting in a pit, Firewood is stacked in the pit and set on fire, so that firmer rock can be heated and then easily dismantled. Woodcut, p. 80, (Liber quintus), 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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Fire setting in a pit, Firewood is stacked in the pit and set on fire, so that firmer rock can be heated and then easily dismantled. Woodcut, p. 80, (Liber quintus), 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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