A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen by Joe Jackson

A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen

Joe Jackson

414 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the wo...

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