Helmont john (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto; hardcover; 1,161 pp. + table (index). Full leather with frontispiece; tight binding; front joint partially cracked; corners heavily rubbed; endpapers soiled, text block unaffected; light marginalia; overall Very Good condition. Jan (John) Baptist(a) Van Helmont (1580-1644) was a Flemish physician, chemist, and mystic, best known for his invention of the word "gas" and its introduction into the vocabulary of science. He recognized the existence of gases separate from atmospheric air, and identified carbon dioxide. In this volume, Oriatrike, Van Helmont wrote extensively about digestion and proposed that it was aided by a chemical reagent, or "ferment" very similar to our modern understanding of enzymes. . KCMS.…