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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

Madison Smartt Bell

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: June 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393328546

ISBN 13: 9780393328547

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

Madison Smartt Bell

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: June 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393328546

ISBN 13: 9780393328547

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