Helmont
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Van Helmont, a renowned physician, had been a practising doctor in Antwerp when the city was hit by plague in 1605.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020
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 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
Since there is no surviving portrait of Van Helmont, this was a pretty exciting identification, too.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
Like Digby and Charleton, he was a reader of van Helmont, so the word ‘fact’ came naturally to him.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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