Helmont
Americannoun
noun
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These papers, including Newton’s notes on Van Helmont, were sold in 1936 to private collectors, among them John Maynard Keynes.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2020
The Belgian chemist Johannes Baptista van Helmont, who coined the word in the 1640s, thought that gas was a spirit, perhaps a demon.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2011
Studying carbon dioxide, van Helmont found that it was emitted by belches: like a neon sign, our digestive system is a long, curvaceous tube full of gases that breathe fire.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2011
The younger Van Helmont had been her scientific mentor and personal physician in the 1670s, and lived with her on her Warwickshire estate.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2010
Hobbes was left out of the Royal Society—there is an extended literature on why—but Digby, Charleton and Boyle, all readers of van Helmont, were among the first members.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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