Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
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.
- Author
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 256
- Series
- Great Discoveries
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton Company
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780393328547
- Genres
- science, history, biography, chemistry, france
- Release date
- 2006
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