Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII : qvibvs officia, instrvmenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentißimè describuntur, sed et per effigies, ...
Georgius Agricola's De re metallica, printed by Froben at Basel in 1561, is a twelve-book Latin treatise on mining and metallurgy written for mine officials, smelters and scholars of the German mining districts. Its woodcuts show shafts, pumps, water wheels, furnaces and smelting works in ordered, labelled scenes, offering a designer clear models of mechanical diagrams and cross-sections drawn with crisp hatched line.
