Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.

The illuminated glass vessel contains urine, which Brand distilled, thus isolating a phosphate for the first known time. Brand was an alchemist working in Hamburg, of whom little is known

Brand discovered phosphorus in 1669

1 print : etching ; platemark 32.2 x 24.1 cm

Pencil lettering in margin: "Brandt découvrant le phosphore, épreuve avant lettre, très rare. Eau forte de Ulm"

State before letters.

Yubraj Sharma, Spiritual energetics of homoeopathic materia medica, Wembley: Academy of light, 2006, vol. 2, p. 558

Wellcome Collection 35429i