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Madison Smartt Bell
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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries) |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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256 |
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2005-06-13 |
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0393051552 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.8 pounds |
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5.51 x 0.83 x 8.27 inches |
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First Edition |
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Product Description
ANTOINE LAVOISIER--who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the Revolution--was himself a revolutionary. Closely followed by the burgeoning international scientific community, he competed with the best minds of his time of 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. Madison Smartt Bell, building on his celebrated trilogy about the eighteenth-century Haitian uprisings, dramatically re-creates this turbulent era of reason and revolution, and the works of a man who so thoroughly exemplified its spirit.
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