Lavoisier-the Crucial Year The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772

The author explores the origins of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution as it centers on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's earliest work on combustion. He shows that the main lines of Lavoisier's theory-including his theory of a heat-fluid, caloric-were elaborated well before his discovery...

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Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2019
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