<i>Chymie</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1763
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving is from the <i>Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers</i> organized by Denis Diderot and other philosophes. It was published in the “Chimie” section of vol. 3 of the <i>Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques</i> (Paris, 1763).
label: Description
content: This is the third of the series of plates representing furnaces and other chemical apparatus. The figures run from 22 to 38. The large figure at top represents the furnace as arranged by the German metallurgist Johann Andreas Cramer. The tall figure at the lower right represents the furnace used by the Prussian chemist Johann Heinrich Pott.
label: Description
content: “Pl. III” appears at the upper right. The “Goussier del.” signature at the bottom left refers to Jacques-Louis Goussier, the artist who drew more than 900 plates for the <i>Encyclopédie</i>. The “Desehrt fecit” signature at lower right refers to a French engraver of the period.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319743.07
label: catalog number
content: 319743.07
label: accession number
content: 239020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 40.005 cm x 23.495 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 5/16 in x 9 1/4 in; 36.35375 cm x 23.495 cm