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    Jan Baptist van Helmont (/ˈhɛlmɒnt/ HEL-mont, Dutch: [ˈjɑm bɑpˈtɪst fɑn ˈɦɛlmɔnt]; 12 January 1580 – 30 December 1644) was a chemist, physiologist, and...
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    for commercial use.[clarification needed] A Flemish alchemist, Jan Baptista van Helmont, was the first person to formally recognize gas as a state of matter...
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  • the Low Countries. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo. ISBN 90-209-1917-2. "Jan Baptista van Helmont - Belgian scientist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April...
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  • Philosophy': Medical Alchemy and Christian Thought in the Work of Jan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644) (pdf) (PhD in History thesis). University of Exeter...
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  • History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 160–162. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. "Jan Baptista van Helmont – Belgian scientist". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 April...
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    following is a typical account of the projection process described by Jan Baptista van Helmont in his De Natura Vitae Eternae. I have seen and I have touched...
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  • used figuratively as an insult Gas from gas, a neologism from Jan Baptista van Helmont, derived from the Greek chaos Geek from geck (gek) (="fool") Gherkin...
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  • The corporation was discontinued in 1985. The Flemish scientist Jan Baptista van Helmont used the name "gas" in his Origins of Medicine (c. 1609) to describe...
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    apprenticeships to be accessible to anyone. In 1609, Flemish chemist Jan Baptista van Helmont began a seven-year period of individual research, hoping to explore...
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  • 1943), pp. 65–66. The twelve were: Elagabalus, Brusquet [fr], Jan Baptista van Helmont, Thomas Urquhart, Jeffery Hudson, François-Timoléon de Choisy,...
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  • the Torgut Mongols of Sinkiang, is developed by Zaya Pandita. Jan Baptist van Helmont's collected works, Ortus medicinae, vel opera et opuscula omnia...
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    "woodmare"), which he also takes as a metaphorical name for an echo. Jan Baptist van Helmont, a near contemporary of Paracelsus and coiner of the word "gas"...
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    Retrieved 2023-02-06. Helmont, Jan Baptist Van (1652). Ortus medicine, id est initial physicae inaudita... authore Joanne Baptista Van Helmont,... (in Latin)...
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  • (1715–1797) John Alcock (1715–1806) Jacques Duphly (1715–1789) Charles-Joseph van Helmont [de] (1715–1790) James Nares (1715–1783) Antoine Dard (1715–1784) Georg...
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    gas as a separate substance was only recognised around 1630 by Jan Baptist van Helmont. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774...
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  • the work of Robert Boyle; but the strong influence was that of Jan Baptist van Helmont; this book was one that Isaac Newton used in his own alchemical...
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    B. (November 2004). "A Previously Unrecognised Portrait of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579–1644)". Ambix. 51 (3): 263–268. doi:10.1179/amb.2004.51.3.263...
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    in sulfuric acid. 1625 – First description of hydrogen by Johann Baptista van Helmont. First to use the word "gas". 1650 – Turquet de Mayerne obtains a...
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  • Books in the Netherlands "1000 sleutelteksten uit de cultuurgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen". Dbnl.org. 1940-11-26. Retrieved 2012-04-18. D'Heere, Lucas...
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  • was first described in 1662 by Jan Baptist van Helmont in reference to the practice of bloodletting. Wrote Van Helmont: Let us take out of the Hospitals...
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    method. 1648 Posthumous publication of the book Ortus medicinae by Jan Baptist van Helmont, which is cited by some as a major transitional work between alchemy...
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  • Scheiner, Christoph 174 Harvey, William 175 Helmont, Jan Baptista van 176 Wendelin, Godefroy 177 Snell, Willebrord Van Roijen 178 Baffin, William 179 Vernier...
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    politician and judge (d. 1692) October 20 (bapt.) – Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Flemish alchemist (d. 1698) November 2 – Philip Dietrich, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg...
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  • annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna. By English medical writer William...
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    amateur botanist Malvaceae Bu Helmiopsis Malvaceae Bu Helmontia Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580–1644), chemist Cucurbitaceae Bu Helwingia Georg Andreas Helwing...
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