06-30-2026, 01:57 PM
"Vincenzo Casciarolo (1571–1624), also known as Vincentius Casciorolus, was an Italian alchemist and shoemaker from Bologna whose primary achievement was synthesizing Barium sulfide (BaS) in 1602 or 1604, the first naturally luminescent compound known to European scholars."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Casciarolo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Casciarolo

