History+of+Phosphorus

Hennig Brand was the founder of phosphorus in 1669. In his time, he was an alchemist, where the goal was to make metals into gold and to find the universal elixir. Hennig Brand believed that metals could be changed in gold by urine. He did an experiment where he heated up and purified urine. By doing this experiment, he discovered phosphorus.

This is a picture of Hennig Brand doing his experiments