Helmont

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Like Digby and Charleton, he was a reader of van Helmont, so the word ‘fact’ came naturally to him.

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Hobbes was left out of the Royal Society—there is an extended literature on why—but Digby, Charleton and Boyle, all readers of van Helmont, were among the first members.

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Salusbury’s Mathematical Collections may thus have been crucial to the success of the word ‘fact’; they rescued it from Hobbes and van Helmont, from the weapon salve and the powder of sympathy, from furry babies and virgin births.

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The Sceptical Chymist and the Physiological Essays were works heavily influenced by van Helmont; it took a while for this new terminology to cross over from the topics discussed by the followers of Paracelsus, the iatro-chemists, into those discussed by the mathematicians.

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We find it in 1649 and 1650 in translations of and commentary on van Helmont, and in 1653 in a translation of and commentary on Descartes: in each case there is no equivalent in the original.

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