NO MUNDO DOS FLUIDOS:
O GAS, O BLAS E O MAGNAL
DA QUÍMICA DE J. B. VAN HELMONT (1579-1644)
A. M. Amorim da Costa

Dept. de Química – Universidade de Coimbra
3004-535 Coimbra – Portugal - acosta@ci.uc.pt

Introdução
1. O espírito seminal de todas as coisas (o gás)
2. O poder motriz universal (o blas)
4. Conclusão
Notas
NOTAS
 

[1]J. B. van-Helmont, “Confessio authoris” in Ortus Medicinae (Amsterdão, Ludovicus Elzevir, 1648) p.16.

[2] Idem, p.17

[3] Idem, p.18

[4] Idem, “promissa authoris” in Ortus, p.12

[5] Idem, p.13.

[6] A) – Escritos fundamentais de J. B. van-Helmont:

(i)-Ortus Medicinae. Id est initia physicae inaudita, Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam (Amsterdão, Ludovicus Elzevir, 1648; re-impressão: Bruxelas, Culture et Civilisation, 1966).

(ii)-Opuscula medica inaudita (Amsterdão, Ludovicus Elzevir, 1648)

B) - Referências bibliográfica básicas relativas à Vida e Obra de João Baptista Van-Helmont:

(i)-J.R.Partington, Johann Baptista Van Helmont in Ann. Sci., vol 1(1930), pp. 359-384; 373-375; Idem, A History of Chemistry , vol.2, (Londres, MacMillan, 1961) pp. 209-232;

(ii)- A. G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, vol.2 (Nova Iorque, Sci. Hist. Publ.,1977) pp.297 ss;

(iii)-W. Pagel, The Religious and Philosophical Aspects of van Helmont´s Science and Medicine in Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, nº2 (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1944); Idem, J. B. van-Helmont in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol.6 (Nova Iorque, Charles Scribner´s Sons, 1972) pp. 253-259; Idem, The “wild Spirit”(gas) of John Baptist van-Helmont and Paracelsus in Ambix, vol.10 (1962), pp. 1-13;

(iv)-Paul Nève de Mévergnies, Jean-Baptiste van Helmont, Philosophe par le Feu (Paris, Lib.E. Droz, 1935);

(v)-P. M. Rattansi, The Helmontian-Galenist Controversy in Restoration England in Ambix, vol.12 (1964), pp. 1-23;

(vi)-T. L. Davies, Boerhaave´s Account of Paracelsus and Van-Helmont in J. Chem. Educ., vol.5 (1928), pp.671-681.

[7]J.B. van-Helmont, “aura vitalis” in Ortus, p.728.

[8]Idem, “de lithiasi” in Ortus,, pp.40-41.

[9]Idem, “complexionum atque mistionum elementalium figmentum” in Ortus p.106.

[10]H.S.van Klooster, Jan Baptist Van Helmont in J. Chem. Educ., 24 (1947), 319.

[11]W.Pagel, the “wild spirit” (gas) of John Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) and Paracelsus in Ambix, vol.10 (1962), 1-13; Idem, J. B. Van Helmont´s Reformation of the Galenic Doctrine of Digestion and Paracelsus in Bull. Hist. Med., vol.29 (1955),563-568. 

[12]J.B.van- Helmont, “aura vitalis” in Ortus, p.728.

[13]W.Pagel, the “wild spirit” (gas) of John Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) and Paracelsus in Ambix, vol.10 (1962), 4-6.

[14]Paracelsus, Philosophia de Generationibus et Fructibus quatuor Elementorum, lib.1, cp.10, vol XIII, p.16 (Ed. Sudhoff).

[15]Paracelsus, De Modo Pharmacandi, lib.I, trat.2, vol.IV, p. 448; Idem, Fragm.De modo Pharmacandi,, lib.I ,trat.1, vol.IV, p. 473 (Ed. Sudhoff).

[16]Paracelsus, Chaos Urinae in Kurtzes Büchlein de Urinis, vol.IV, p. 623 (Ed. Sudhoff).

[17]Paracelsus, De caducis in Scholia in lib.Paragraph, cap.2, vol.V, p.200 (Ed. Sudhoff); Idem, De febribus in Theoricae Figurae Universal Morbor, vol.V, p.453 (Ed.Sudhoff); Idem, Ursprung der frantzosen, lib.II ,cap.2, vol.VII, p. 211 (Ed. Sudhoff); Idem, Bergsucht, lib.I, cap.2, vol. IX, p. 465 (Ed. Sudhoff). 

[18]J.B.van-Helmont, “de lithiasi” in Ortus p.830.

[19]Idem, “physica Aristotelis et Galeni ignara” in Ortus, p.46.

[20]Idem, p.49.

[21]A.G.Debus, loc. cit., p.317.

[22]J. B. van-Helmont, “blas meteoron” in Ortus pp.81-82.

[23]Idem, Ortus p. 82.

[24]Idem, “de tempore” in Ortus, p.632.

[25]Idem, “blas humano” in Ortus, p181.

[26]Idem, “scabies and ulcera scholarum” in Ortus p.328.

[27]Idem, “vacuum naturae” in Ortus, p.84.

[28]Idem, “elementa” in Ortus, pp.52-53.

[29]Idem, p.53.

[30]Idem, “complexionum atque mistionum elementalium figmentum” in Ortus pp. 108-109.

[31]Idem, “terra” in Ortus pp.54, 56.

[32]Idem, “tria prima chymoicorum principia, neque eorundem essentias de morborum exercitu esse” in Ortus, pp.398-409.

[33]Idem, “Vacuum naturae” in Ortus, p.85-86.

[34]Idem, p.87.

[35]Idem, p.88.

[36]R. Fludd, Tratactus secundus de naturae simia seu technica macrocosm historia, (Frankfurt, 2º ed., J. T. De Bry, 1624), pp. 471-472.

[37]M. Mersenne,Correspondance, (Paris, Ed.Cornelis de Waard, P.U.F., 10 vols, 1932-1967) in vol.III, pp. 110-130.

 
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