Abstract:Recebido em 3/5/02; aceito em 5/7/02 EARLY DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HELMONTIAN CONCEPT OF GAS-PART II. This paper focuses on the early interpretations of the concept of gas, originally created by J. B. Van Helmont (1579-1644). Our main interest is on the ideas of English physicians and chemical philosophers of the seventeenth century. Gas was usually associated with the material cause of diseases, with the vital spirit, or with a volatile spirit produced in some kinds of material transformations. As a general trend… Show more
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