Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell...
Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell...
Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell.
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New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
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N540.92/12
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
I. Ancien regime -- II. Out of alchemy -- III. Le principe oxygine -- IV. The chemical revolution -- V. The end of the year one.
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2005.
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"Thanks to his prodigious intellectual gifts and aided by his self-made fortune and his accomplished wife, Antoine Lavoisier was at the center of the scientific world of the late eighteenth century. It was from that vantage point that he participated in the race to uncover the chemical processes involved in combustion. Observed by the international...
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Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell.
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Great discoveries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N540.92/12
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74VKd50vvr6y
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0393051552
9780393051551
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540.92
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991020121249702626
