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

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

Great Discoveries

Madison Smartt Bell

256 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative fast-paced
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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 li...

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