A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat, And The Race To Discover Oxygen

Viking Adult (Oct 06, 2005)

9780670034345

| Hardcover

432 pages | 155 x 229 mm | English

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Dewey 546.721

LC Classification QD181.O1 .J33 2005

LC Control No. 2004065103

Subject

History
Oxygen
Science
Science/ Europe/ History/ 18th Century

Plot

Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air" in spite of such historical challenges as the American Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. 25,000 first printing.

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