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HELMONT, Jean Baptiste van (1577 – 1644)

1577 – 1644

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1648 CE

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Ortus medicinae.

Helmont was one of the founders of biochemistry. He was the first to realize the physiological importance of ferments and gases, and indeed invented the word “gas”. He introduced the gravimetric idea in th…