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Scheele in Uppsala

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Bergman

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It was probably in order to get better access to a laboratory that Scheele moved to Uppsala in 1770. Others have suggested that it was in order to get into contact with Bergman and the University, but given the fact that Bergman had rejected the papers he had submitted to the Academy in Stockholm, and that it would take some effort to persuade Scheele to visit Bergman, it appears less likely.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We cannot be sure Gahn is the actual author; in the eighteenth century it was common that the theses were actually written by the teacher rather than the student.

  2. 2.

    According to preserved protocols, Gahn did not give any inaugural lecture in the Academy. These lectures had become more and more rare at the end of the century.

  3. 3.

    Zetterström wrote”skedvatten”, which has no direct English translation. The name came from German, Scheiden, to separate, and alludes to its property to separate silver from gold. “vatten” means water.

  4. 4.

    This further proofs that Scheele arrived in Uppsala at the latest in spring.

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Lennartson, A. (2020). Scheele in Uppsala. In: Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Bergman. Perspectives on the History of Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49194-9_13

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