Ephraim Seehl
Ephraim Reinhold Seehl (English: Ephraim Rinhold Seehl) (died after 1790)green vitriol.[2]
Life
He was the son of Captain Reinhold Seehl (d. 1721), a German volunteer who worked his way through the ranks in the Swedish army.[naturalised as a British subject by Act of Parliament introduced in 1783 (23 Geo c. 8).[3]
Seehl occurs in a London subscription list in 1757.
Seehl traveled widely in Europe. He was a subscriber to Mineralogia Cornubiensis (1778) by
Rosicrucian.[citation needed
]
Seehl's will was proved 12 September 1783.[1]
Publications
Seehl worked on the compounds of
saltpetre has been attributed to him.[8]
Seehl published An Easy Method of Procuring the Volatile Acid of Sulphur in sulphurous acid.[10]
- A new improvement in the art of making the true volatile spirit of sulphur (1744). Seehl was mentioned for this work in Johann Friedrich Gmelin's Geschichte der Chemie.[11]
- A short treatise upon the art and mystery of making of copperas (1768)
References
- ^ a b Wills Proved at Prerogative Court of Canterbury 12 September 1783, Ephraim Rinhold Seehl.
- ^ William Pryce (1778). Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a Treatise on Minerals, Mines and Mining. - London, Phillips 1778. Phillips. p. 33.
- ^ "House of Lords Journal Volume 36: February 1783 1-10". Journal of the House of Lords volume 36: 1779-1783. Institute of Historical Research. 1767–1830. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1757). A natural history of fossils. Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers. p. viii.
- ^ Hermione Hobhouse, ed. (1994). "Leamouth Road and Orchard Place: Individual wharves and sites". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ Porter, Stephen (1994). Poplar, Blackwall and The Isle of Dogs. p. 662.
- ^ "PDF" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ISBN 978-3-406-44106-6.
- ^ Ephraim Rinhold Seehl, An Easy Method of Procuring the Volatile Acid of Sulphur, by Ephraim Rinhold Seehl; Addressed in a Letter to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions Vol. 43, (1744 - 1745), pp. 1-9. Published by: The Royal Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/104402
- ^ Royal Society (Great Britain); Charles Hutton; George Shaw; Richard Pearson (1809). Philosophical Transactions (abridge) 1744-1749. and. p. ix.
- ^ Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1798). Geschichte der Chemie : seit dem Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften bis an das Ende des 18 Jehrhunderts... von Johann Friedrich Gmelin (in German). p. 557 note.