when was mercury discovered element
At times poisoning was the result. The discovery of mercury as an element was in the 18th century. Incidentally, at about the same time, also 3000 years ago, the Sumerians discovered the planet Mercury.Like the Babylonians who discovered mercury and put in many records but not as an element, the Sumerians recorded the planet mercury quite a lot.uang Qin, an emperor of China, was not the man who discovered mercury. But he was among those who discovered too late the deadly effect of the element when ingested. He was killed when he took a mixture of alcohol and jade mercury powder.