Johann Friedrich Böttger
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Johann Friedrich Böttger was a German alchemist. Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden. He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-p
Johann Friedrich Böttger
Böttger was detained in Enns (Upper-Austria) in June 1703.
Memorial in Schleiz
Böttger monument in Dresden
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus or Tschirnhauß was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been
Johann Friedrich Böttger
…the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708, but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus produced porcelain first. Certainly, the Meissen factory, established 1710, was the first to produce porcelain in Europe in large quantities and since…
![Portrait by Martin Bernigeroth [de]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Tschirnhaus.jpg/500px-Tschirnhaus.jpg)
Portrait by Martin Bernigeroth [de]
Illustration from Acta Eruditorum, 1690
Medicina mentis, 1687
Medicina corporis, 1686