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Jean Beguin (1550–1620) was an iatrochemist noted for his 1610 ''
Digital edition
, which many consider to be one of the first chemistry textbooks. In the 1615 edition of his textbook, Beguin made the first-ever
Jean Beguin
- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography 1550 births 1620 deaths 17th-century French chemists {{france-chemist-stub
Tyrocinium Chymicum
''Tyrocinium Chymicum'' was a published set of chemistry lecture notes started by Jean Beguin in 1610 in Paris, France. It has been cited as the first chemistry textbook (as opposed to that for alchemy
Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; ...
'' (Begin Chemistry)Digital edition
, which many consider to be one of the first chemistry textbooks. In the 1615 edition of his textbook, Beguin made the first-ever
chemical equation
A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and chemical formulas. The reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities on the right-hand side with a plus sign between ...
or rudimentary reaction diagrams, showing the results of reactions in which there are two or more reagents. Modern rendering of this famous diagram, detailing the reaction of corrosive sublimate (HgCl2) with sulfide of antimony (Sb2S3), is shown below:
See also
*Timeline of chemistry
This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of ...
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Jean Beguin
- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography 1550 births 1620 deaths 17th-century French chemists {{france-chemist-stub