Machines for grinding coffee. Includes views from above and in profile with hardware and various parts for the machine. Also includes a scale. Items in the image are numbered and lettered for identification in preceding text.
Source creator:
Velloso, José Mariano da Conceiçao, 1742-1811
Source Title:
[Fazendeiro do Brazil] O fazendeiro do Brazil ... Tomo III. Bebidas alimentosas. Parte II.
Source place of publication:
Lisboa [Lisbon]
Source publisher:
Na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira
Source date:
M. DCC. XCVIIII. [1799]
notes:
This volume of Velloso's collected works is taken from a book by a coffee planter of Saint Domingue, Pierre-Joseph Laborie, a creole native of Haiti, who sought to diversify the sugar-dependent economy of the island by introducing coffee cultivation. A noted botantist, Velloso was appointed director of the press, Arco do Cego, incorporated in 1798 into the royal printing office. Meant to modernize the Portuguese empire, the Arco do Cego published at least 80 works in three years on various topics, including agriculture, navigation, and medicine.
