Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16476

    Furnace for calcining the 'Bologna Stone' (phosphorous)

    Date
    1680
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p152
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 128mm
    width (paper): 78mm
    Subject
    Chemistry
       > Alchemy
    Content object
    Description
    Print of a furnace for calcining the 'Bologna Stone' (phosphorus), discussed by Marco Antonio Cellio, an astronomer and instrument-maker based in Rome. Cellio's book was reviewed in Philosophical Collections, edited by Robert Hooke.
    Object history
    This print is from Marco Antonio Cellio, Il fosforo, o'vero la pietra bolognese (Rome, 1680). The book is reviewed and this figure reproduced in Philosophical Collections, 3 (10 December 1681), unnumbered plate before p. 43.
    Related fellows
    Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural Philosopher
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