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Lavoisier in the Year One
The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Series: The Great Discoveries Series #1
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 5 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 06/28/2022
Synopsis
Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.