Lavoisier in the Year One : Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Author(s): Madison Smartt Bell
Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing a new terminology. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race, as the circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation - a considerable fortune and social connections - also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.368317
- : 01 June 2006
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- : Madison Smartt Bell
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 540/.92 B
- : 256