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Leopold's Workbench: The Hapsburg-Lorraine Grand Duke and Chemistry

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Ida M. Masoner

Institut für Organische Chemie, Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Austria

Nicoletta Nicolini

Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", 00185 Roma, Italy

Gianfranco Scorrano

Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy

J. Chem. Educ., 2002, 79 (1), p 47

DOI: 10.1021/ed079p47

Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2002

Abstract

We have examined and identified the 38 samples contained in the glass bottles and glass jars preserved in the Grand Duke Leopold's workbench, located at the Museum of History of Science in Florence, Italy. Many of the samples were coloring materials, some were of medicinal interest, others were connected with the industrial development of Tuscany of that time (1765-1790), such as materials for pencils, boric acid, soil improvement, colored glass manufacture, and metal extractions.