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• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• BAPTISTE

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• VAN

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• JEAN BAPTISTE VAN HELMONT (1577—1644)

HELMONT (1577—1644)  , Belgian chemist, physiologist and physician, a member of a See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• FAMILY

family, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels in 1577.1 He was educated at See also:

• LOUVAIN (Flem. Leuven)

Louvain, and after ranging restlessly from one See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science to another and finding See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction in none, turned to See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, in which he took his See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor's degree in 1599 . The next few years he spent in travelling through See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . Returning to his own See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country he was at See also:

• ANTWERP
• ANTWERP (Fr. Anvers)

Antwerp at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of ' An alternative date for his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth is 1579 and for his See also:

• DEATH

death 1635 (see See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

Bull . See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . Acad . Belg., 1907, 7, p . 732) . F1ELMSTEDT- --H LMUND in Journ. pharm. chim . (1852) . Other authorities are Poultier d'Elmoth, Memoire sur J . B. See also:

• VAN

van See also:

• HELMONT, JEAN BAPTISTE VAN (1577—1644)

Helmont (1817) ; Rixner and Sieber, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Physiologic (1819-1826), vol. ii.; Spiers, Helmont's See also:

• SYSTEM

System der Medicin (I84o); Melsens, Lecons sur van Helmont (1848) ; Rommelaere, Etudes sur J . B. van Helmont (1860) .