Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame View across the River Thames

View across the River Thames of London Bridge with Southwark Cathedral beyond and boats and ships on the water

Referred to in the text as 'The active gibbon'

The sitter is white-haired and has a small beard and moustache

'Packing up for the Holidays'

Landscape with a windmill

Apparatus for melting ores and for pressing juice from wood Finish:Float frame View across the River ThamesThe 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).