Redgrove, H. Stanley · London: William Rider & Son · leaf 68
es. Plate 6, fig. A, showsan athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple ofdigesting vessels. A vessel of this sort was employedfor heating bodies in a closed space, the top beingsealed up when the substances to be operated uponhad been put inside, and the vessel heated in ashesin an athanor, a… … cq
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