We’ve been talking about calcium and calcium supplements for quite some time now and I thought it might be interesting to take a look at who discovered calcium in the first place. It turns out that this element was first isolated by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 in England. He isolated it by electrolyzing a mixture of mercuric oxide and lime and thus gets credit for the discovery of Calcium.

Noteworthy also is the fact that calcium in the form of  calcium oxide was know to and used by ancient Romans in the 1st century. They used it to produce lime as well as plaster of paris which they used to set bones.