Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
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Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
（Great discoveries）
W.W. Norton, c2005
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents of Works
- Ancien regime
- Out of alchemy
- Le principe oxygine
- The chemical revolution
- The end of year one
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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.
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