Diviners finding minerals. Artwork of divining rods being used to search for underground minerals during the 16th century. Diviners are using forked,wooden rods at centre left and upper left. On the diviner's advice the supervisors (at bottom left) are directing the workforce to begin digging mines (at right). Divining (meaning "finding") rods are held loosely in the diviners' hands and spontaneously point up or down if the practitioner walks over a mineral deposit. Although still widely used,divining has no scientific basis and there is no conclusive evidence that it works. The artwork is based on an original from De re metallica (1556) by Agricola. This artwork is from the Playbook of Metals (Pepper John Henry,1862) | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Terry, Sheila |
Bildgröße: | 3332 px × 2965 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |