The scientific basis of national progress : including that of morality / by G. Gore.

  • Gore, George, 1826-1909.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The scientific basis of national progress : including that of morality / by G. Gore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Moses that in the beginning moved upon the water, yea, his splendid shining face : the fiery pillar in the desert, that secret fire of the altar wherewith Moses burned the golden calf before he strewed it upon the fire and made it potable.” The experiment of Brandt was repeated by Kun- ckel before the courts of Saxony and Brandenburg, although it was not a very delicate or agreeable exhibition, “because the anctuous and daubing oyliness was not yet accurately separated from it, and without doubt it was very stinking.” Brandt’s process was further developed by Boyle, and pub- lished in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in the year 1692-3 ; and phosphorus was afterwards obtained in larger quantity and in a purer state by Hanckwitz, a chemist in Southampton Street, Strand, and sold by him at' three pounds sterling per ounce. Its price at present is less than three shillings per pound. Margraaf, Fourcroy, Vauquelin, and Dr. Slare also extended our knowwledge of the substance ; Gahn, in 1769, made the important discovery of phosphorus in bones, and Scheele immediately devised the process now in use by our manufacturers for extracting it from that substance. The com- mencement of the use of phosphorus for the purpose of getting a light occurred about the year 1803, but it was not until the year 1833 that the invention of phosphorus matches became commercially successful. The use of such matches is now universal, and it has