Packe, Christopher, active 1670-1711

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Name (Latin)
Packe, Christopher, active 1670-1711
Other forms of name
Pack, Christopher, active 1670-1711
Packe, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711
Pack, Christopher, fl. 1670-1711
Date of birth
1670
Date of death
1711
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 67886266
Wikidata: Q5113015
Library of congress: n 85029992
Sources of Information
  • Helmont, F.M.v. One hundred fifty three chymical aphorisms, 1688:t.p. (Chr. Packe)
  • DNB(Packe, Christopher, fl. 1711; chemist; set up his laboratory in London in 1670 and styled himself a professor of chemical medicine)
  • InU/Wing STC files(usage: Christopher Pack)

Wikipedia description:

Christopher Packe (born in or before 1657, died in or after 1708), was an English chemist. Packe set up his laboratory in 1670 at the sign of the "Globe and Chemical Furnaces" in Little Moorfields, London, and styled himself a professor of chemical medicine. He practised as a quack under powerful patronage, including that of the Hon. Robert Boyle and Edmund Dickinson, physician to the king, and in 1684 he circulated a list of his specifics.

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