Left: An alchemical furnace owned by Elector August of Saxony, ca. 1575. Right: An engraving showing such a furnace in action, from Lazarus Ercker’s Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergkwercks Arten (1598).
Left: An alchemical furnace owned by Elector August of Saxony, ca. 1575. Right: An engraving showing such a furnace in action, from Lazarus Ercker’s Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt unnd Bergkwercks Arten (1598).