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 Maciej Pasztor
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| General Description : | Michał Sędziwój (Michael Sendivogius, Sędzimir) (1566–1636) of Ostoja coat of arms 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 and Priestley. 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 Sędziwój's schema of the universe. |
| Material | Gold |
| Face value | 1,55 Zloty |
| Catalog code (Michel) | 4529 |
| Catalog code | Polish Stamps Catalog Pl - 4379 |
| Series | Poles on world |
| Print run | 400,000 |
| Issue date | 29/08/2011 |
| Designer | janusz Wysocki |
| Print technique | Offset |
| Printed by | PWPW SA (Polska Wytwórnia Papierow Wartosciowych SA) |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
