| Description | Ruprecht was a Professor of Chemistry at the Miner's Academy at Schemnitz in Hungary. One of his achievements was to build a pilot plant at Skleno near Schemnitz where he proved the correctness of Ignaz von Born's amalgamation process for silver extraction.
[Source: http://www.uibk.ac.at/mineralogie/oemg/bd_156/156_129-158.pdf]
Contents: 'Chemische Schriften' [Chemical Writings], 1784 and 'Von dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Forstwissenschaften mit dem Bergwerken' [On the relationship between the forestry and mining sciences], c1784 |