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] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 240 pages) |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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