Michał Sędziwój

Michał Sędziwój (February 2, 1566 - c. May&mdash;August 1636), known in English as Michael Sendivogius and Latin as Sendivogius Polonus, was a Polish alchemist and physician, noted as the discoverer of the central nitre, which was re-discovered later and termed oxygen by Lavoisier.

Selected Bibliography

 * Novum Lumen Chymicum, a.k.a. De Lapide Philosophorum Tractatus duodecim e naturae fonte et manuali experientia depromti (1604)
 * The New Chemical Light, drawn from the fountain of Nature and of Manual Experience
 * Dialogus Mercuriii, Alchemistae et Naturae (Cologne, 1607)
 * Tractatus de sulphure altero naturae principio (Cologne, 1616)