Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 1097 a man on horseback and

a man on horseback and a dog

with fan-club secretary Anne Collingham helping him sort through the 52 sacks full of greeting cards and parcels

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Over a nine month period over seven hundred men worked virtually round the clock

22nd January 1966

Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 1097 a man on horseback andBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre