Salt production on the Nile, Water from the Nile is channeled into salt pits and vaporized to soda by the sun's heat, woodcut, p. 453, (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 production on the Nile, Water from the Nile is channeled into salt pits and vaporized to soda by the sun's heat, woodcut, p. 453, (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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