Sulphur

A Heaven and Hell of Colour

“Nymphs! you disjoin, unite, condense, expand,
And give new wonders to the chemist’s hand;
On tepid clouds the rising steam aspire,
Or fix in sulphur all its solid fire;

Erasmus Darwin The Botanic Garden “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I

I’ve been reading Phillip Ball’s Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (2001). I was introduced to his thinking thr…