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- Born
- 1635
- Died
- 1682
- Works
- 53
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- Joh. Joach. Becheri ... Opuscula chymica rariora
- Magnalia naturae
- D. Johann Joachim Bechers ... Politische Discurs von den eigentlichen Ursachen dess Auff- und Abnehmens der Städt, Länder, und Republicken
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- Zur mechanischen Sprachübersetzung
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Johann Joachim Becher ( German: [ˈbɛçɐ]; 6 May 1635 – October 1682) 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.
Page of Theatrum Chemicum Volume VI (1659), showing the first page of 'Discursus Solini Saltztal Regiomontani De potentissima philosophorum medicina universali, lapis philosophorum trismegistus dicta.'