Lavoisier - the crucial year : : the background and origin of his first experiments on combustion in 1772 / / Henry Guerlac.

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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, New York : : Cornell University Press,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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