Apprentice's Alchemy (22) Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644): Paracelsian scientist and experimental alchemist.
Apprentice's Alchemy (21) Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644): Paracelsian scientist and experimental alchemist. Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. ''While it is possible to picture van Helmont as a typical chemical philosopher of the early seventeenth century, his views go far beyond those of his predecessor in terms of both experimental method and theory. '' (Allen G. Debus) Joan Baptista van Helmont the Flemish Doctor was born in Belgica, Brussels on January 12, 1579. Undoubtedly, his work is a source of inspiration and direct influences on medicine, alchemy and chemical theories as well as his religious and philosophical concepts. His father, who died the same year he was born, left him a sustainable and comfortable economic legacy. ''His father, Christian van Helmont, who died that same year (1579), was state counselor of Brabant who had married into the Stassart family of Brussels. Through marriage to Marguerite van Ranst in 1609, Jean Baptiste became...