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By the end of the 17th century in Europe the new experimental method that eventually became central to the discipline of chemistry was in its infancy. Within a few decades, it passed with giant steps into the 18th century and became well-established thanks to the ideas, in-ventions, discoveries, intuition and theories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794).
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Donated to the Grand Duke by its maker, Benedetto Bregans, the lens is now housed in the Galileo Museum.
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Fontani, M., Orna, M.V., Costa, M. (2016). Natural Scientists from the Last of the Medici (1694) to the Period of the Museum of Physics and Natural History (1775–1807). In: Chemistry and Chemists in Florence. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30856-2_2
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