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5 reviews for:
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Madison Smartt Bell
3.0 AVERAGE
5 reviews for:
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Madison Smartt Bell
3.0 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
It was more about the history of chemistry rather than Lavoisier or the French Revolution.
slow-paced
Really disjointed and jarringly edited in some places. Went from "this happened, then this happened, then this happened" type of history, and would then make a sudden jump to another event without any real transition. Don't know if this was the writer or the editor, but it doesn't really matter. I need to look elsewhere for a biography of Lavoisier.
(Also, one of my pet peeves: there were sections/poems in the original French, with no translation into English.)
(Also, one of my pet peeves: there were sections/poems in the original French, with no translation into English.)
An easy, readable history of the chemist of Lavoiser and his death during the French Revolution.
Too much technical data about this study versus a study done by some other guy, which led to this discovery, which led to this study ....
Not enough biography or an assessment of where Laviosier fits in to the whole study of chemistry overall. There was some interesting stuff in there, and it made a good book to follow 'The Lost King of France.' But not quite what I was hoping for.
Not enough biography or an assessment of where Laviosier fits in to the whole study of chemistry overall. There was some interesting stuff in there, and it made a good book to follow 'The Lost King of France.' But not quite what I was hoping for.