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The Creation of Porcelain

submitted by Sagemind

1 decade 3 years 5 months 1 week ago

Meissen Porcelain Documentary 1969

Johann Friedrich Böttger (February 4, 1682 – March 13, 1719) was a German alchemist.

He was generally acknowledged as the inventor of European porcelain although more recent sources ascribe this to Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. Böttger is still credited with the industrial manufacturing process of Meissen porcelain, copied by other European factories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_B%C3%B6ttger

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Achtung lieber! Some english subtitles would've been nice..

Upvoting for minute one and later -- loved seeing the artisans work.

As for this being on the philosophy channel?? What percentage of Sifters understand German enough to know if that is true or not?

Böttger was a German Alchemist held against his will and forced to turn lead to gold - since he obviously couldn't do it - He discovered porcelain when he was stalling in order to save his life. He spent most of his years in prison and was forced to work.

Any money he made was stolen from him and his Porcelain discoveries were also stolen.
When he was finally released, he died from yet-unrealized sub-standard lab environments and exposure to poisonous chemicals such as lead and cobalt.

The point is, as an Alchemist (the oldest Philosophy in the world today that out-dates ancient Egypt and even the Chinese dynasties), Böttger was forced to life imprisoned for that Philosophy and inadvertently discovered the arcanum, or secret formula, for making porcelain.

Read the book - It's a good read:
The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story
See link above...
>> ^bareboards2:

Upvoting for minute one and later -- loved seeing the artisans work.
As for this being on the philosophy channel?? What percentage of Sifters understand German enough to know if that is true or not?

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