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Archeus, the Workman and Governour of generation, doth cloath himself presently with a bodily cloathing: For in things soulified he walketh thorow all the Dens and retiring places of his Seed, and begins to transform the matter, according to the perfect act of his own Image.
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That Mettals, Small Stones, Rocky-Stones, Sulphurs, Salts, and so the whole rank of Minerals, do find their Seeds in the Matrix or Womb of the Waters, which contain the Reasons, Gifts, Knowledges, Progresses, Appointments, Offices, and Durations of the same.
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For want of a name, I have called that vapour Gas, being not far severed from the chaos of the auntients. In the meantime it is sufficient for me to know that gas is a far more subtile or fine thing than a vapour, mist, or distilled oylinesse, although, as yet, it may be many times thicker than air.
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I praise my bountiful God, who hath called me into the Art of the fire, out of the dregs of other professions. For truly Chymistry... prepares the understanding to pierce the secrets of nature, and causeth a further searching out in nature, than all other Sciences being put together: and it pierceth even unto the utmost of real truth.
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Born:
January 12, 1580
Died:
December 30, 1644
(aged 64)
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Jan Baptist van Helmont was a Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry".
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