Giovanni Agostino Panteo, known in Latin as Joannes Antonius Pantheus, was a Venetian priest and alchemist. Panteo wrote the Ars transmutationis metallicae (the art of transmutation of metals), spoke out against fake alchemy and separated alchemy from archime. Alchemy was concerned only with changing the surface of objects.
Panteo’s book has been credited as an important and very early contribution to atomism, the precursor to modern atomic theory.(1) Atomism is a theory which states that there are two fundamental principles, atoms and void (or NOT atoms). Atoms are indestructible because they cannot be divided any further and construct all macroscopic objects by combining with other atoms.(2)
Works Referenced
Ars Transmutationis Metallicae ... [with, as issued] Commentarium theoricae Artis Mettalicae Transmutationis. https://www.sophiararebooks.com/pages/books/4395/pantheus-or-panteo-or-pantheo-giovanni-agostino/ars-transmutationis-metallicae-with-as-issued-commentarium-theoricae-artis-mettalicae
Atomism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism
Giovanni Agostino Panteo https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Agostino_Panteo
Pantheo, Giovanni Agostino active approximately 1517-1535 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2004070057/
Giovanni Agostino Panteo http://historyofalchemy.com/list-of-alchemists/giovanni-panteo/
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