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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.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  540 L395Bb 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 214 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Great discoveries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Contents Ancien regime -- Out of alchemy -- Le principe oxygine -- The chemical revolution -- The end of the year one.
Summary Antoine Lavoisier 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
Standard No. 9780393051551 (hardcover) 52295
YDXCP 2168928

 
    
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