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What theories were there before scheele?
By the time he was a teenager, Scheele had learned the dominant theory of gases which in the 1770s was the phlogiston theory.
What did Carl Wilhelm Scheele do with these theories?
Scheele explained oxygen using phlogistical terms because he did not believe that his discovery disproved the phlogiston theory.
What did Carl Wilhelm Scheele do with this discovery?
When Carl Scheele discovered oxygen he called it fire air as it supported combustion.
What did Carl Scheele find with air?
Carl Scheele's investigation of air enabled him to conclude that air was a mixture of fire air and foul air; in other words, a mixture of two gases.

Question: what did the public think of him?
Self-contained rewrite: What did the public think of Carl Scheele?