Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Bell, Madison Smartt

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393328547)

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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Bell, Madison Smartt

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

$13.95
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Bell, Madison Smartt

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

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 0393328546
ISBN-13: 9780393328547
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2006
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.86h x 6.38w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/06/2006 pg. 24

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