Jan Baptist van Helmont
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Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "th
Portrait of van Helmont by Mary Beale
Title page of Ortus medicinae
Posthumous portrait of van Helmont
The Romanesque tower of the old church in Neder-Over-Heembeek and house where van Helmont performed an alchemical transmutation. Drawing by Leon Van Dievoet, 1963.
Neder-Over-Heembeek
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Neder-Over-Heembeek is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921. Nowadays, it is a northern section of that municipality, and a predominantly indus
Old Romanesque tower in Lower Heembeek
Church of St. Nicholas in Upper Heembeek
Romanesque tower of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Lower Heembeek