Illustration of workers at a distillery factory, c. 1580-1605. In the foreground, two men consult a book. Others perform the process of distillation. The Invention of Distillation is the seventh plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times), consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle.