Michael Sendivogius

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Michael Sendivogius

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Michael Sendivogius's Degrees

• Doctorate Medicine University of Padua

Why Is Michael Sendivogius Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Michael Sendivogius was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor. A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purification and creation of various acids, metals and other chemical compounds. He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance—later called oxygen—170 years before Scheele's discovery of the element. He correctly identified this 'food of life' with the gas given off by heating nitre . This substance, the 'central nitre', had a central position in Sendivogius' schema of the universe.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Michael Sendivogius?

Michael Sendivogius is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Padua
• Jagiellonian University