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Author Bell, Madison Smartt.

Title Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  540.92 BELL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series Great discoveries
Great discoveries.
Note "Atlas books."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
Contents Ancien régime -- Out of alchemy -- Le principe oxygine -- The chemical revolution -- The end of the year one.
Summary Antoine Lavoisier--who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the French Revolution--was himself a revolutionary. Closely followed by the burgeoning international scientific community, he competed with the best minds of his time to be the first to explain how chemical processes really work. Aided by a large fortune and his accomplished wife, he employed the most ingenious and expensive technology of his time in a series of innovative experiments that forever buried medieval alchemy and established a chemical language still in use today. Yet his personal triumph was short-lived, and the glory his achievement brought France could not protect him from the ravages of the Terror.--From publisher description.
Subject Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Chemists -- France -- Biography.
Chemistry -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Chemistry -- Nomenclature.
Chemical processes.
ISBN 0393051552
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