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Bottger's eureka!: New insights into the European reinvention of porcelain

Zumbulyadis, Nicholas

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127767

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Title
Bottger's eureka!: New insights into the European reinvention of porcelain
Author(s)
Zumbulyadis, Nicholas
Issue Date
2010-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • History
  • Chemistry
  • Review archaeol porcelain invention
Abstract
A review discusses new details about the invention of European porcelain via examg. the plausibility of an early 19th-century account in the light of recent anal. data together with archival material. Johann Friedrich Bottger, an alchemist, in pursuit of the philosopher's stone, together with Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and their circle of lab. assistants and kiln builders, who succeeded in reinventing porcelain in Europe.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127767
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2010v035p024
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Copyright 2010 Division of the History of Chemistry

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Bulletin for the History of Chemistry: Volume 35, Number 1, 2010 PRIMARY