Johann Joachim Becher
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Johann Joachim Becher was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his terra pinguis theory which became the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.
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Scientists
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deceased
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Lived 1635 to 1682 · aged 47
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