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Chemical Experts at the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory (2013)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 60, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 99-121

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Sites of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century.”
Language: English

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Porcelain Manufacturing Chemistry Authorities; experts 18th century Prussia (Germany)

The royal porcelain manufactories in eighteenth-century Continental Europe were sites of production that implemented chemistry in three different areas: manufacture of porcelain paste, preparation of pigments for ornamenting porcelain and construction of furnaces along with choice of fuel for firing porcelain. This paper provides evidence for the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin being a site of chemistry by studying the activities of its so-called Arcanisten, laboratory workers (Laboranten) and chemists between 1787 and 1795. It pays particular attention to the questions of who implemented chemistry and how this was done.

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Article Perkins, John (2013) Sites of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 95-98). unapi

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