What is Johann Joachim Becher?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Johann Becher | image =Jjbecher.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_date = 6 May 1635 | birth_place = [[Speyer]], [[Holy Roman Empire]] | death_date = {{d-da|October 1682|May 1635}} | death_place = [[London]], [[England]] | nationality = | field = [[Chemistry]], [[alchemy]] | work_institution = | alma_mater = | doctoral_adviser = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Phlogiston theory]] | influences = | influenced = [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] }} '''Johann Joachim Becher''' ({{IPA-de|ˈbɛçɐ|lang}}; 6 May 1635 – October 1682) was a [[German people|German]] [[physician]], and [[Alchemy|alchemist]], best known for his development of the [[phlogiston theory]] of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian [[cameralism]].<ref name=solsal>{{Aut|Smith, Pamela H.}} (2016). ''The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|9780691173238}}, p. 40/41; see also: 'The Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist' in: {{Aut|Greenberg, Arthur}} (2006) - ''From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story.'' Hoboken N.J. : John Wiley & Sons. {{ISBN|978 0 470 08523 3}}. p. 231f. Chisholm writes in the 11th. ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica that Becher “published an edition of Salzthal’s ''Tractatus de lapide trismegisto''.”</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1635 births]] [[Category:1682 deaths]] [[Category:Alchemy]] [[Category:German doctors]] {{bio-stub}}