Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9503
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A chemistry laboratory
Date
1765
Creator
Pierre-Charles Canot (1710 - 1777, French) , Engraver
After
Samuel Wale (1721 - 1786, British) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
49277
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 265mm
width (print): 390mm
width (print): 390mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The interior of an eighteenth century chemistry laboratory in Kingston upon Thames. Illustration from Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, The philosophical commerce of arts, by William Lewis (London, 1765).
Object history
William Lewis won the Royal Society's premier award, the Copley medal, in 1754 'For the many Experiments made by him on Platina, which tend to the discovery of the sophistication of gold'.
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