Sendivogius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish alchimist
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1566
Place of Birth: Łukowica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1636
Profession: physician, diplomat, chemist, alchemist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Sendivogius
- Michael Sendivogius (; Polish: Michal Sedziwój; 1566–1636) was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor.
- A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purification and creation of various acids, metals and other chemical compounds.
- He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance—later called oxygen—170 years before Scheele's discovery of the element.
- He correctly identified this 'food of life' with the gas (also oxygen) given off by heating nitre (saltpetre).
- This substance, the 'central nitre', had a central position in Sendivogius' schema of the universe.
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