Hennig Brand Discovering Phosporus
Detail from The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus, 1771, by Joseph Wright, depicting the German alchemist Hennig Brand accidentally discovering the chemical element phosphorus in 1669 while he was searching for the philosopher's stone
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