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world, for the secret reason that the most
graceful of the female figures resembled my wife. It
stood under the armillary sphere and the sign
Pisces, and a pair of sparrows had built their
nest behind her back. At the foot of the monument
I found two pieces of cardboard cut in an
oval shape, one stamped with the number 207,
the other with the number 28. These are the
signs for the atomic weight of lead, and of
silicium. I made a note of the discovery, and when
I got home began a series of experiments with
lead, leaving silicium for another time. As I
was aware, from my knowledge of metallurgy,
that lead refined in a furnace, fed with bone-ashes,
always produces a recognisable amount of
silver, and this silver, a little gold, I drew the
conclusion that phosphate of lime, being the
chief constituent of bone-ashes, must be an
important element in the gold produced from lead.
And, as a matter of fact, molten lead poured
upon a deposit of chalk containing phosphate
of lime, also assumed on its under-side a golden
colour. The powers, being unpropitious, did
not allow me to finish my experiments. A year
later, in Lund, a sculptor, who made experiments
in his own potteries, gave me some glaze composed
of lead and silicium, by means of which
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