Nicolas Guibert
Nicolas Guibert (c. 1547 – c. 1620) was a Franco-German physician and alchemist who later became a fierce critic of alchemy, opposing ideas on transmutation in his major work ''Alchymia ratione et experientia ita demum viriliter impugnata'' (1603) which prompted a debate. He has been called the "Copernicus of chemistry".Guibert was born in St. Nicolas-de-Port, Lorraine, in a Catholic family. He studied medicine at Perugia and travelled around Europe working briefly at various times in the service of Francesco de’ Medici, Cardinal Granvelle, and Giambattista della Porta. He then practiced medicine at Casteldurante and became a chief physician from 1578 in a papal state. He became alchemist to Otto Truchsess in Augsburg the next year. He however began to find problems in alchemy and motivated by Thomas Erastus, he published ''Alchymia ratione et experientia ita demum viriliter impugnata et expugnata'' in 1603. He began the book with the note that alchemy was neither art nor science but deceit (calliditas). He noted that the claim to antiquity did not make for evidence of truth. He started pointing out that many of the foundational works were dubious or fraudulent in their claims of authorship. Some works, he accepted, were by the authors claimed, including those of Arnald of Villanova, Roger Bacon, Agrippa, and Paracelsus and these declared as being heretic on the basis of the Bible. He noted that metals could not be converted from one to the other and declared that the analogy of the conversion of a larva to a butterfly did not hold. Andreas Libavius responded to his critique with ''Defensio alchymiae transmutatoriae opposita Nicolai Guiberti'' (1604) defending the changes in plants and animals as a valid analogy. Guibert responded to some of the criticism in ''De interitu alchymiae'' (1614). Provided by Wikipedia
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7by Yoann Koskas, François Lannes, Nicolas Branger, Sophie Giusiano, Nicolas Guibert, Géraldine Pignot, Jochen Walz, Dominique Rossi, Cyrille BastideGet full text
Published 2019-05-01
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8by Maxime Robin, Laurent Mhanna, Leonor Chaltiel, Gavin Plat, Valentin Héluain, Céline Basset, Julie Meilleroux, Thomas Filleron, Julien Mazières, Christophe Hermant, Nicolas GuibertGet full text
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9by Laura Keller, Nicolas Guibert, Anne Casanova, Stephanie Brayer, Magali Farella, Myriam Delaunay, Julia Gilhodes, Elodie Martin, Gisèle Balagué, Gilles Favre, Anne Pradines, Nicolas MeyerGet full text
Published 2018-11-01
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10by Antonin Bal, Karen Brengel-Pesce, Alexandre Gaymard, Grégory Quéromès, Nicolas Guibert, Emilie Frobert, Maude Bouscambert, Mary-Anne Trabaud, Florence Allantaz-Frager, Guy Oriol, Valérie Cheynet, Constance d’Aubarede, Amélie Massardier-Pilonchery, Marlyse Buisson, Julien Lupo, Bruno Pozzetto, Pascal Poignard, Bruno Lina, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Florence Morfin, Sophie Trouillet-Assant, COVID-SER Study groupGet full text
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11by Antonin Bal, Karen Brengel-Pesce, Alexandre Gaymard, Grégory Quéromès, Nicolas Guibert, Emile Frobert, Maude Bouscambert, Mary-Anne Trabaud, Florence Allantaz-Frager, Guy Oriol, Valérie Cheynet, Constance d’Aubarede, Amélie Massardier-Pilonchery, Marlyse Buisson, Julien Lupo, Bruno Pozzetto, Pascal Poignard, Bruno Lina, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Florence Morfin, Sophie Trouillet-Assant, COVID-SER Study groupGet full text
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12by Sophie Trouillet-Assant, Amélie Massardier-Pilonchery, Barbara Charbotel, Nicolas Guibert, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Muriel Rabilloud, Chloe Albert Vega, Antonin Bal, Julie Anne Nazare, Pascal Fascia, Adèle Paul, Constance d Aubarede, Virginie Pitiot, Matthieu Lahousse, André Boibieux, Djamila Makhloufi, Chantal Simon, Mary Anne Trabaud, François Gueyffier, Jérôme Adnot, Dulce Alfaiate, Alain Bergeret, Florent Bonnet, Gaëlle Bourgeois, Florence Brunel-Dalmas, Eurydice Caire, Pierre Chiarello, Laurent Cotte, Constance d'Aubarede, François Durupt, Escuret Vanessa, Fascia Pascal, Fassier Jean-Baptiste, Fontaine Juliette, Gaillot-Durand Lucie, Gaymard Alexandre, Gillet Myriam, Godinot Matthieu, Gueyffier François, Guibert Nicolas, Josset Laurence, Lahousse Matthieu, Lina Bruno, Lozano Hélène, Makhloufi Djamila, Massardier-Pilonchéry Amélie, Milon Marie-Paule, Moll Frédéric, Morfin Florence, Narbey David, Nazare Julie-Anne, Oria Fatima, Paul Adèle, Perry Marielle, Pitiot Virginie, Prudent Mélanie, Rabilloud Muriel, Samperiz Audrey, Schlienger Isabelle, Simon Chantal, Trabaud Mary-Anne, Trouillet-Assant SophieGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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