Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame View of St Mary Lambeth

View of St Mary Lambeth and Lambeth Palace

View of the Merchant Taylors' School in Suffolk Lane

Referred to in the text as 'The active gibbon'

Landscape with a windmill

'Salle-a-Manger

Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame View of St Mary LambethThe upper picture on this plate is part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's 'Miraculum Mundi', and shows the furnace arrangement for 'the best and most profitable manner of melting the Ores of Gold, Silver, and Lead by the flame of wood only.' The lower illustration, part of the later 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi', depicts 'the Press, by whose help the Juice is plentifully pressed out of Wood, without great labour, for the making of Salt Petre' (nitre).