Frank Martin on sat 14 aug 99
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While scratching you head over testing, testing,
and more TESTING, trying to understand what makes a glaze do its trick,
or have you ever caught a masked glimpse of your self in a glaze lab
mixing different amounts of magic powders together from all over the
world
trying to capture the elusive Floating Blue.
Making Floating Blue work and act better than you or any one on clayart
has ever seen. =3B)
Well my hard working Alchemists this is a must read true story for you=21
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The Arcanum : The Extraordinary True Story
by Janet Gleeson
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Review Amazon.com
Since the middle ages, Western Europeans have
practiced alchemy, a primitive form of
chemistry, in the great hope of transforming base
metal into gold. In the early 18th century, a
second great secret puzzled Western Europe's early
scientists: how to make porcelain.
Recently arrived from the Orient, porcelain quickly
became a symbol of power, prestige, and
good taste. In The Arcanum, Janet Gleeson presents
an entertaining and informative account
of the invention of European porcelain and the
founding of the Meissen Porcelain
Manufacture outside Dresden, Germany.
Her narrative focuses on three individuals:
Alchemist Johann Frederick B=F6ttger inadvertently
discovered the arcanum, or secret formula, for
making porcelain=3B Johan Gregor Herold, an
ambitious artist, developed colors and patterns of
unparalleled brilliance at the newly
established Meissen Porcelain Manufacture=3B Johann
Joachim Kaendler, a virtuoso sculptor,
used the Meissen porcelain to invent a new art
form. Interwoven with the story of Augustus
the Strong, the greedy and ambitious king of the
Kingdom of Saxony, who held B=F6ttger
captive until he discovered the formula, Gleeson's
tale reads easily and maintains a high level
of suspense and intrigue throughout. --Bertina
Loeff
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Frank Martin in Warwick. NY.
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