Lavoisier--The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 (Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science)

Lavoisier--The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 (Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science)

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Before Henry Guerlac's book, we knew little about the reasons that led the great chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier to discover the role of air in combustion. Henry Guerlac finds that this breakthrough that began the Chemical Revolution did not come ex nihilo, as many historians claim. Rather, it marked the culmination of research by British and French chemists, radically refashioned by Lavoisier and his disciples. Henry Guerlac portrays Lavoisier integrating Continental and British chemical traditions. Like New ton in physics and Darwin in biology, Lavoisier was a revolutionary. This work presents his in a vigorous and innovative light.

Lavoisier--The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 (Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science),Henry Guerlac,Taylor & Francis,2881244041,1743-1794,Biography,Chemical Research,Chemistry - General,Chemists,Combustion,France,History Of Science,Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,,Science,Science Fiction,History of ideas, intellectual history,Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,Philosophy of science,Science / Chemistry / General,Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics,c 1700 to c 1800

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