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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

Name: Lavoisier in the Year One
Brand: Blackstone Publishing
SKU: BK_BLAK_019399UK
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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.