Mayow, John

Mayow, John

▪ English chemist and physiologist
born May 24, 1640, London, Eng.
died October 1679, London
 English chemist and physiologist who, about a hundred years before Joseph Priestley and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, identified spiritus nitroaereus ( oxygen) as a distinct atmospheric entity.

      Though a doctor of law from the University of Oxford (1670), Mayow made medicine his profession. His writings include a remarkably correct anatomical description of respiration and a recognition of the role of oxygen in the combustion of metals.

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