Johann Joachim Becher
Johann Joachim Becher (German: [ˈbɛçɐ]; 6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a German physician, and alchemist, best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.[1]
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| Born | 6 May 1635 |
| Died | October 1682 (aged 47) |
| Known for | Phlogiston theory |
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| Fields | Chemistry, alchemy |
| Influenced | Georg Ernst Stahl |
Johann Joachim Becher Media
Page of Theatrum Chemicum Volume VI (1659), showing the first page of 'Discursus Solini Saltztal Regiomontani De potentissima philosophorum medicina universali, lapis philosophorum trismegistus dicta.'
Physica subterranea, 1738 edition
References
- ↑ Smith, Pamela H. (2016). The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691173238, p. 40/41; see also: 'The Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist' in: Greenberg, Arthur (2006) - From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story. Hoboken N.J. : John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978 0 470 08523 3. p. 231f. Chisholm writes in the 11th. ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica that Becher “published an edition of Salzthal’s Tractatus de lapide trismegisto.”