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Portrait of Carl Wilhelm Scheele

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist whose discoveries include oxygen and chlorine gas.

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  • 16.5 cm W x 16.5 cm H
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute
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  • Translated by Jocelyn R. McDaniel
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  • Council on Library and Information Resources

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  • Series I: Georg Bredig Papers, 1891-1944
  • Series I: Sub-Series II. Georg Bredig Subject File, 1900-1944
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  • Box 4, Folder 4

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Meisenbach Riffarth & Company. “Portrait of Carl Wilhelm Scheele.” Engelmann, Th. W. (Th. Wilhelm), n.d. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 4, Folder 4. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5y3y5wf.

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
geboren zu Stralsund d 19ten December 1742,
gestorben zu Köping d 21n May 1786.

Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann Leipzig.

Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Leipzig.

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
born in Stralsund on December 19th, 1742,
died in Köping on May 21st, 1786

Published by Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig

Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Leipzig
.

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