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Ben Gross
Ben Gross
@bhgross144.bsky.social
1 year ago
The cover of Lawrence Principe's book (The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences), featuring Thomas Wyck's painting, An Alchemist in his Studio, which is currently in the collections of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

The cover of Lawrence Principe's book (The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences), featuring Thomas Wyck's painting, An Alchemist in his Studio, which is currently in the collections of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

Wilhelm Homberg, the chymist known for the rigorous experiments he conducted as director of the Académie des Sciences' chemical laboratory, is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

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#histSTM #histchem #chemistry
#alchemy #chymistry 🗃️📜🧪

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Ben Gross
Ben Gross
@bhgross144.bsky.social
1 year ago
Lawrence Principe, "The Mysteries of the Bologna Stone"
Lawrence Principe, "The Mysteries of the Bologna Stone" YouTube video by AIP History

#ICYMI: Larry Principe recently gave a talk on the Bologna Stone--"the first artificially produced phosphorescent material"--as part of @aip.bsky.social's Trimble Lecture Series.

youtu.be/-g68Twx3B1k?...

#histSTM #histsci #physics
#alchemy #chymistry #chemistry

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