Is this alchemist using a rotavap almost 2 centuries before Craig?
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The first rotavap?
In this post I said that Lyman Creighton Craig invented the rotavap (1950) and that Walter Büchi made the 'modern design' (1957). I may have been wrong.
Is this alchemist using a rotavap almost 2 centuries before Craig?
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.
Is this alchemist using a rotavap almost 2 centuries before Craig?
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.
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That painting is on the cover of last year's Aldrich catalog. I always assumed the apparatus was basically a chimney to pipe noxious fumes outside.
It's so obviously a bong. Look at the stoned lad at the table lighting up.
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