Johann Joachim Becher

Johann Joachim Becher (; 6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a German physician, and alchemist,  best known for his development of the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism. (2016). The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press. , p. 40/41; see also: 'The Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist' in:  (2006) - From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story. Hoboken N.J. : John Wiley & Sons. . p. 231f. Chisholm writes in the 11th. ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica that Becher “published an edition of Salzthal’s Tractatus de lapide trismegisto.”

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