Johann Joachim Becher

About Johann Joachim Becher

[Wikidata] German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and adventurer... | [Wikipedia] Johann Joachim Becher was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his terra pinguis theory which became the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.