Kunckel, Johann

Kunckel, Johann. "An experimental confirmation of chymical philosophy." In Pyrotechnical discourses, 1-180.. ... 

Kunckel, Johann, "Ars Vitrana expemnentahs, Christoph Riegel, Frank-... 

Kunckel, in the heat of excitement, wrote immediately to his friend, Dr. Johann Daniel Krafft of Dresden. The latter, however, proved to be a false friend, for, without replying to Kunckel s letter, he went immediately to Hamburg and bought the secret from Brand for two hundred thalers. Just as the transaction was being made, Kunckel arrived on the scene. All his attempts to learn the secret process failed, but he did find... 

Kunckel not only prepared phosphorus, but also cast it in molds to obtain the stick phosphorus now familiar to all chemistry students. He also introduced its use as a medicinal, and his famous book on the subject bears the curious title Treatise of the Phosphorus Mirabilis, and Its Wonderful Shining Pills (10). It is pleasant to know that his phosphorus researches were not without reward, for Duke Johann Friedrich of Hanover paid him an annual pension for the rest of his life (9). 

Johann Heinrich Linck, 1675-1735. Leipzig apothecary who communicated Kunckel s method of preparing phosphorus to J. F. Henckel. The Golden Lion pharmacy Was in possession of the Linck family for three generations, and their museum of natural history and art was known throughout all Germany. 

Haudicquer de Blancourt then told how Father Neri prepared Zaffer by heating die ore to redness m die furnace, sprinkling it with vinegar, grinding it, and washing it by decantation with warm water (73, 74). In his Ars Vitraria Experimentalis Johann Kunckel explained that the acetic acid used in this process was unnecessary and that the roasting... 

Ammonia. Haim undo Lulio (Raymond Lully) mentioned caustic ammonia in the thirteenth century (36). Johann Kunckel (or Kunkel) von Lowenstem (1630-1702) described it in his posthumously published Vollstandiges Laboratorium Chymicum (37). He prepared it by adding lime to sal ammoniac (38). 

Birth of Johann Kunckel, early writer on phosphorus. 

Two prominent names among the chemists of the seventeenth century were Johann Kunckel (or Kunkel) (1630-1703), and Johann Joachim Beclier (1635-1682). Kunkel was born in Holstein near Rendsburg. He was at first apothecary, but soon become interested in the problem of alchemy, and, for a time, endeavored to realize the conversion of base metals into gold. He was encouraged by... 

Mercury fulminate appears to have been prepared for the first time by Johann Kunckel von Lowenstern (1630-1703), the same chemist who discovered phosphorus and applied the purple of... 

This report is provided by Johannes Kunckel, groom of the chamber of the Elector of Saxony, in his Laboratorium Chymicum . ... 

It was at the end of the seventeenth century that the German Johann Kunckel discovered how to use gold chloride to manufacture ruby glass, and also how to strike red (a re-heating technique to develop the colour). 

A238. Frontispiece engraving from Johannes Kunckel Observationes Chymicae London and Rotterdam, 1678. 

During the seventeenth century the nature of zinc was misunderstood it was frequently confused with bismuth. In 1695 Homberg identified it as the metal in blende and about 1700 Johann Kunckel von Lftwenstein recognised that calamine contains a metal that alloys with copper in the manufacture of brass. It may be recalled that both Homberg and Kunckel played an important rdle in the discovery of phosphorus (p. 76). Percy states that Henckel was the first person in Europe to make metallic zinc from... 

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