New Inventions of Modern Times Nova Reperta, The Invention of the Wind Mill, plate 11 ca. 1600 Jan Collaert I Netherlandish Eleventh 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. Illustration of several wind mills in a landscape. A town with its churches is depicted in the background on the right. In the middle ground a woman carries a sack on her back, a man drives a horse-drawn carriage with more sacks, and a man draws a sack down from the top of a wind mill. In the foreground a man carries a sack on horseback, while a woman carries another one on her back.. New Inventions of Modern Times Nova Reperta, The Invention of the Wind Mill, plate 11 659727