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  • Lavoisier in the Year One

  • The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (The Great Discoveries Series)
  • By: Madison Smartt Bell
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

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Lavoisier in the Year One

By: Madison Smartt Bell
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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Summary

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 comes across like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.

©2005 Madison Smartt Bell (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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