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Nov 10, 1493
Phillippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus Von Honenheim (Paracelsus)
Paracelsus wouldn't accept for medical orthodoxy of the day, he was not afraid to mix medicine and alchemy to concoct new potions and remedies. He proposed a ground breaking new idea suggesting that the world was actually made 3 elements Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury. Paracelsus saw these as the core ingredients to make metals and medicines. He reckons Salt would heal wounds, Sulfur was combustible, and Mercury was fluid and volatile. -
Henry Cavendish
Henry discovered Hydrogen, which is termed as inflammable air. He described the density of inflammable air on combustion, in a 1766 paper on factitious airs, his experiment to measure the density of the earth. Cavendish found his discovery in an experiment, he added a metal zinc to an acid, then bubbles started to appear on the surface of the zinc. Cavendish started to collect the gas from it, there was no smell or taste, he then set fire to the gas and made a popping sound. -
Johann Becher
Johann discovered the purpose that the destructive power of fire was caused by an entity named Phlogiston. It is described as an odorless, tasteless, and weightless substance that causes things to burn reducing them to their true form. Phlogiston seemed a credible in the 17th century that it consumed the scientific community. The community accepts the truth virtually paralyzing our ability to discover more elements and map the contours of the natural world. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier has also discovered Oxygen, in 1772 Lavoisier discovered that when phosphorus or sulfur are burned in air, the products are acidic. Lavoisier did not believe it was dephlogisticated anything, because he did not believe in Phlogiston. In 1779 Lavoisier coined the name oxygen for the element released by mercury oxide. -
Joseph Priestly
Priestly was interested into a gas that's produced in the fermentation process, he called it Fixed air ( Carbon Dioxide). Priestly was very interested into fixed air, he mixed it with water and invented the first fizzy drink. Priestly had found Oxygen, but because he believed the idea of phlogiston. He thought the splint was introducing phlogiston to the new air and catching fire, but he thought air must be without phlogiston so he called it Dephlogisticated air.
