All about Van Helmont
The chapter we completed in our Periodic Table book this week was mostly about the experiments of Johann Baptista Van Helmont. The children drew pictures with comments about his experiments, and pasted them in their lapbooks.
Samuel was charmed with how Van Helmont named ‘gas’, but both big boys thought he was pretty dumb. Despite his landmark experiments, he still held fast to many of the misconceptions of his predecessors.
Next chapter covers Phlogiston. Ooooh, I can’t wait! 