European Porcelain  

Before the 1700s, the secret to making white porcelain was known only in China and Japan. The discovery of the process that made it possible for European factories to make porcelain was made by two men, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651–1708), a mathematician and physicist, and Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682–1719), a young alchemist who was […]