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Lavoisier In The Year One : Birth Of A New Science In An Age Of RevolutionStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionAntoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing a new terminology. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race, as the circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation - a considerable fortune and social connections - also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution. |