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Title: Natural history – Mineralogy – Salt works – Salt evaporation ponds
Original Title: Histoire naturelle – Minéralogie – Salines – Fontaines salantes
Volume and Page: Plates vol. 6 (1765)
Author: Unknown
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Citation (MLA): "Natural history – Mineralogy – Salt works – Salt evaporation ponds." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.552>. Trans. of "Histoire naturelle – Minéralogie – Salines – Fontaines salantes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 6 (plates). Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): "Natural history – Mineralogy – Salt works – Salt evaporation ponds." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.552 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Histoire naturelle – Minéralogie – Salines – Fontaines salantes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 6 (plates) (Paris, 1765).

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Salt Works and Salt Springs, Containing Eleven Plates That Are Equivalent to Fourteen, Because of Three Double Ones.

Plate I: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Cut View of a Salt Well, Development of the Chain Pump


Plate II: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan, Profile or Side View of the Two Round Boilers at Moyenvic


Plate III: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan, Profile and Elevation of the Boilers of the Dieuze Salt Works and Plan of a New Boiler With its Pans Established in 1738 at Dieuze and Chateau-Salins


Plate IV: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan, Profile, Elevation and Cut View of a Boiler at Chateau-Salins


Plate V: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan and Profile of a Boiler at Roziere and Development


Plate VI: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Tools and Development


Plates VII and VIII: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan and Elevation of Part of the Graduation Buildings at the Roziere and Dieuze Salt Works and Upper Platform Where the Channels Receiving Water from the Pumps Are Located


Plate VIII bis: Mineralogy, Salt Processing, Plan of a Steamer at the Second Workshop of the Montmorot Salt Works


Plate IX: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan of One of the Old Factories at Dieuze and Transversal Cut of the Boiler


Plate X: Mineralogy, Salt Works, Plan of One Half of the New Factory at Dieuze and Transversal Cut of the Same Factory