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
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Joe Jackson
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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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"The discovery of oxygen in the late 1700s changed human thought and history as radically as Copernicus's astronomy, Newton's apple, Darwin's chimps, and Einstein's formulas. Its isolation changed the status of humans on earth in ways never before...

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