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January 23, 17I0.—Johann Friedrich Bdttger, the German alchemist, was born in 1682 and died in 1719. Apprenticed to a chemist of Berlin named Zorn, he experimented with zest with the view of the transmutation of metals into gold. From Berlin he went to Dresden, and it was while under the patronage of the Elector of Saxony that he accidentally discovered the process of making porcelain from the reddish clay found in the neighbourhood of Meissen, and on Jan. 23, 1710, the first European porcelain factory was opened at that place.
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 144 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119144a0
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