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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

Comprehensive account illuminating Lavoisier's role in the rise of modern chemistry and the French Revolution.

The debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier's discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the

Antoine Lavoisier-who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the Revolution-was himself a revolutionary.

Originally published in French in 1993 (Editions Pygmalion/Gerard Watelet, Paris), and expanded and revised for this translation. The founder of modern chemistr