The mill in the etching seen here is a smock mill (named because it was thought to resemble a smock). Smock mills took many different forms. This one is a topwheeler: to angle the sails so they could capture the wind, the miller only had to rotate the cap where the sails are attached. Topwheeling mills were invented during the 1300s. Rembrandt van Rijn's painting (p. 13) shows a post mill ...
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