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Andreas Libavius or
Andrew Libavius was born in Halle,
Germany c. 1550 and died in July 1616.
Libavius was a
renaissance man who
spent time as a professor...
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precursor to
other tin compounds. It was
first discovered by
Andreas Libavius (1550–1616) and was
known as
spiritus fumans libavii. It is
prepared from...
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complex illustration found in
Alchemia (1606) by the
German academic Andreas Libavius in a
chapter entitled De
Lapide Philosophorum (The Philosopher's Stone)...
- ethanol, when "spirits" was a
synonym for hard liquor.
Paracelsus and
Libavius both used the term
alcohol to
denote a fine powder, the
latter speaking...
- ("Natural Magic") and in the
works of
other contemporary chemists like
Andreas Libavius (c. 1550–1616), Jean
Beguin (1550–1620), and
Oswald Croll (c. 1563–1609)...
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Indian tin, tutanego, calamine, and spinter.
German metallurgist Andreas Libavius received a
quantity of what he
called "calay" (from the
Malay or Hindi...
- a salt of an
earth of alum. In 1595,
German doctor and
chemist Andreas Libavius experimentally confirmed this. In 1722,
German chemist Friedrich Hoffmann...
- scrutiny. Lead
nitrate was
first identified in 1597 by the
alchemist Andreas Libavius, who
called the
substance plumbum dulce,
meaning "sweet lead", because...
- controversial. In
succession he
defended the
Rosicrucians against Andreas Libavius,
debated with Kepler,
argued against French natural philosophers including...
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predate Biringuccio. The
metal antimony was
known to
German chemist Andreas Libavius in 1615 who
obtained it by
adding iron to a
molten mixture of antimony...
