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1. Georg Ernst Stahl

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   Georg Ernst Stahl was a highly influential German physician and chemist of the late Baroque period, best known for his development of Animism and his foundational, if ultimately superseded, theories in phlogiston chemistry. Born in 1659, Stahl's work significantly shaped medical and chemical thought throughout the eighteenth century, bridging the gap between older humoral theories and emerging mechanistic frameworks, albeit through highly metaphysical m…

2. Georg Ernst Stahl

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   Contributions to Chemistry and Phlogiston Theory
   Stahl was also a professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Halle. While his chemical theories were eventually displaced by the rise of oxygen theory championed by Antoine Lavoisier, Stahl was instrumental in popularizing and refining the phlogiston concept originally proposed by Johann Joachim Becher.
   Stahl termed the supposed fiery, weightless element released during combustion as …