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    Jan Baptista van Helmont - Encyclopedia Britannica

    • Jan Baptista van Helmont (born Jan. 12, 1580 [1579, Old Style], Brussels [Belg.]—died Dec. 30, 1644, Vilvoorde, Spanish Netherlands [Belg.]) Flemish physician, philosopher, mystic, and chemist who … See more

    Education and early life

    Van Helmont was born into a wealthy family of the landed gentry. He studied at Leuven (Louvain), where he finished the course in philosophy and classics, and then flirted with theolo… See more

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    Van Helmont published very little until near the end of his life. This may be explained in part by … See more

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    Van Helmont was a man of his age and accepted the ideas of spontaneous generation, transmutation of metals, and the existence of a medical panacea. However, h… See more

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    Van Helmont was the first to recognize that many reactions produce substances that are, in his words, “far more subtle or fine…than a vapour, mist, or distilled oiliness, alt… See more

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  1. Partially discovered the process of photosynthesis
    Jan Baptista van Helmont (1580-1644) partially discovered the process of photosynthesis. He grew a willow tree in a weighed amount of soil. After five years, he discovered that the willow tree weighed about 74 kg more than it did at the start.

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    What did Jan van Helmont say about plants?
    Jan van Helmont, in the early seventeenth century, concluded that plants are composed not of humus but of water that has been transmuted into plant substance. In the early eighteenth century, Stephen Hales found evidence that “air” was a component of the plant body.

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    How did van Helmont prove that plants grew?
    As the weight of the soil had hardly changed, van Helmont concluded that plant growth cannot only be due to minerals from the soil. He thought that the extra plant material had come from the water alone. For the first time this disproved the previous theory of the Ancient Greeks which was the plants gained mass by taking in minerals from the soil.

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    Did van Helmont understand the role of sunlight and atmospheric gases?
    Although van Helmont did not understand the role of sunlight and atmospheric gases in plant growth, his early experiment advanced our understanding of photosynthesis. In 1771, the noted English chemist Joseph Priestley performed a series of important experiments which implicated atmospheric gases in plant growth.

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    How did Jan Baptist van Helmont prove that plants did not use soil?
    He planted the tree, watered it and then left it for 5 years. He then re-weighed the tree, which had increased in mass by over 12 stone. He dried the soil and weighed it, showing that the soil was almost the same mass. He concluded that the tree grew by drinking water. How Jan Baptist van Helmont showed that plants did not use soil to grow.

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  3. Crops Review
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  4. National Center for Biotechnology Information
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    Early Pioneers of Photosynthesis Research

    Jan 1, 2011 · Jan van Helmont, in the early seventeenth century, concluded that plants are composed not of humus but of water that has been transmuted into plant substance. In the early eighteenth century, Stephen Hales found …

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    Jan Baptist van Helmont - Wikipedia

    Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his 5-year willow tree experiment, his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation.

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    Nov 23, 2012 · In 1634, Jan Baptist van Helmont was arrested by agents of the Spanish Inquisition for the crime of studying plants and other phenomena. While under house arrest, he started to consider how...

  11. Wiley Online Library
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    History and Early Development of Photosynthesis

  12. Encyclopedia.com
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    3.1: Discovery of Photosynthesis - Biology LibreTexts

    May 18, 2024 · The history of the studies done on photosynthesis dates back into the 17th century with Jan Baptist van Helmont. He rejected the ancient idea that plants take most of their biomass from the soil. For the proof, he …

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    4.9: Photosynthesis - Dicovering the Secrets - Biology LibreTexts

  16. BBC
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    Experiments to investigate photosynthesis - Photosynthesis

  17. Discovering Belgium
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    Jan Baptist van Helmont: alchemist, physiologist, physician

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  19. Biology Reference
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  20. Springer
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  22. Britannica
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