Lavoisier in the Year One

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.

First sentence: In early autumn of 1793, officials of the French National Convention called on Antoine Lavoisier at his private residence in Paris: 243 boulevard de la Madeleine.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

W. W. Norton

Editions

4

Pages

256

ISBN

9780393328547

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