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Lavoisier in the year one : the birth of a new science in an age of revolution / Madison Smartt Bell.
Antoine Lavoisier--who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the French Revolution--was himself a revolutionary. Closely followed by the burgeoning international scientific community, he competed with the best minds of his time to be the first to explain how chemical processes really work. Aided by a large fortune and his accomplished wife, he employed the most ingenious and expensive technology of his time in a series of innovative experiments that forever buried medieval alchemy and established a chemical language still in use today. Yet his personal triumph was short-lived, and the glory his achievement brought France could not protect him from the ravages of the Terror.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 0393051552
- ISBN: 9780393051551
- Physical Description: xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Ancien r©Øegime -- Out of alchemy -- Le principe oxygine -- The chemical revolution -- The end of the year one. |
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| Subject: | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Chemists > France > Biography. Chemistry > France > History > 18th century. Chemistry > Nomenclature. Chemical processes. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Baker County Library | 540.92 .L414b 2005 (Text) | 37814002949262 | NON-FICTION | Available | - |
