James Price
James Price by John Russell; pastel, circa 1782; National Portrait Gallery, London
James Price poisoned himself an engraving from Physique et chimie populaires by Alexis Clerc, 1880
James Price, alchemist
Events
- Born 1752 at London, England
- Died 3 August 3 1783 at Guildford, England
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- An account of some experiments on mercury, silver and gold : made at Guildford in May, 1782, in the laboratory of James Price. To which is prefixed an abridgement of Boyle's account of a degradation of gold. (1782)
- An account of some experiments on mercury, made at Guildford in May, 1782. in the laboratory of J. Price, M.D.F.R.S. (1783)
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External references
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Price_(chemist) — “James Price (1752–1783) was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.”
- https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03653/james-price “James Price by John Russell pastel, circa 1782”
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/227051 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/349194 “James Price (1752–1783) Chemist and Alchemist”
- https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/James_Price.html Isis, Volume 41, Number 3/4, Dec., 1950 “James Price (1752–1783) was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.”
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