Volta's Cousin and his apothecary in Idrija

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Juznic, Stanislav
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Abondio Maria Inzaghi; Ernest Freyer; Count Franz Johann Inzaghi; Alessandro Volta; Idrija; Ljubljana; Graz; Pavia; history of chemical technology;
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O6 [化学];
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The immense popularity as well as comparatively quick acquisitions of early Volta's inventions in Ljubljana, Idrija and Graz is attributed to the impact of Volta's relative Count Franz Johann Inzaghi who headed the Idrija Mine between 1764 and 1791. The interesting fact was put in the limelight: already the great-grandfather of Francis Johann Inzaghi and Volta, Abondio Maria Inzaghi, was a head of Idrija mine for a decade. Franz Johann Inzaghi paid the printing of Ljubljana exam theses on the chemical and related sciences tied in a book of the Volta's favorite researcher of those times, the Turin professor Beccaria. The theses were written in style of Boskovie's chemical beliefs which Volta endorsed throughout his life. Inzaghi introduced Volta's early research of gases in Habsburg schools in Como and Pavia to improve safety in an otherwise stale Idrija shafts. Volta's chemical ideas were used for the purification of the Idrija mercury and for the production of secondary products, especially cinnabar red color vermilion in a new factory of cinnabar on the right bank of the Idrijca River in 1785. Volta's inventions of the electrophorus for multiple electrical charging and Volta's pistol - eudiometer for measuring the quality of air were implemented extremely fast in a collection of Ljubljana higher school physics-chemical cabinet. Inzaghi was still in touch with Volta after his return to Graz, especially during Volta's wedding in the year 1794. This is the first publication of family relations of Inzaghi and Volta. Inzaghi's apothecary was the first class Bohemian expert Ernest Freyer who worked in Ljubljana from 1751 to 1753 and established the Pharmacy in Idrija between 1754 and 1795. Freyer used local mercury for his remedies and amalgamations long before John Frederic Daniell (*1790; dagger 1845) introduced his Voltaic Cell which produced about 1.1 Volts as one of the first to incorporate the mercury by amalgamating it with the zinc anode to reduce corrosion when the batteries were not in use.
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