06-15-2026, 09:40 AM
Another article on Bottger here:
"Sometime in the early 1700s, young Johann Friedrich Bottger was apprenticed to a Berlin apothecary. At the time the search for medicines was intermingled with the pursuit of the “philosopher’s stone,” the legendary mineral that when combined with base metals would produce gold. Even such famous scientists as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle dabbled in alchemy, but came up empty. Bottger, however, was convinced that the secret lay within his grasp if he could just raise funds for his experiments."
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...hite-gold/
"Sometime in the early 1700s, young Johann Friedrich Bottger was apprenticed to a Berlin apothecary. At the time the search for medicines was intermingled with the pursuit of the “philosopher’s stone,” the legendary mineral that when combined with base metals would produce gold. Even such famous scientists as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle dabbled in alchemy, but came up empty. Bottger, however, was convinced that the secret lay within his grasp if he could just raise funds for his experiments."
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...hite-gold/