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Johann Joachim Becher

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German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and adventurer

ScientistsLived 1635 to 1682 · aged 47
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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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