A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen

A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen image
ISBN-10:

0670034347

ISBN-13:

9780670034345

Author(s): Jackson, Joe
Released: Oct 06, 2005
Publisher: Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover, 414 pages
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Description:

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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