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 | #701999 in Books |  LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY |  1999-02 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x5.25 x1.25l, | File Name: 0446524999 | 324 pages


||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| One for the shelf a keeper|By art detective|I've read this book a couple of times over the yrs. It's a good reference for the time period, and a fun book to read.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| ripping yarn of porcelain discovery|By Ivor E. Zetler|As a budding enthusiast of Meissen porcelain, I found this b|.com |Since the middle ages, Western Europeans have practiced alchemy, a primitive form of chemistry, in the great hope of transforming base metal into gold. In the early 18th century, a second great secret puzzled Western Europe's early scientists: how to mak

The arcanum--the recipe to make gold--was mankind's legendary quest since the Age of Reason. By the early 18th century, however, porcelain began to rival gold in value. Gleeson recounts the true story of Johann Friedrich Bottger, an alchemist, who, at the cost of his own life, discovered how to make porcelain and changed the course of history.


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