Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Chemist and Revolutionary
Author : Henry Guerlac
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Henry Guerlac
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 1996-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521566728
Comprehensive account illuminating Lavoisier's role in the rise of modern chemistry and the French Revolution.
Author : Lynn Van Gorp
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0743905822
Antoine Lavoisier is often known as the Founder of Modern Chemistry. In this captivating biography, readers will discover how Lavoisiers studying and work led to his discovery of the Conservation of Mass, naming 33 of the elements, being the first person to discover the existence of oxygen, and creating a way of naming compounds! The intriguing facts and stunning images work together with the easy-to-read text and engaging hands-on lab activity to keep readers interested and eager to learn!
Author : Antoine Lavoisier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781982050955
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution; August 26, 1743 - May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He is widely considered in popular literature as the "father of modern chemistry." The 1789 publication of Elements of Chemistry (Trait� �l�mentaire de chimie) became the first modern textbook on chemistry and represented Lavoisier's major contribution to the field. Within this work, Lavoisier introduced a new nomenclature, proposed an oxygen theory that dismantled the theory of phlogiston, presented a clear statement of the law of conservation of mass, clarified the concept of an element as a substance that could not be broken down by any known physical process, and described the method whereby compounds are formed from elements.
Author : Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393341100
"Fresh…solid…full of suspense and intrigue." —Publishers Weekly 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.
Author : Vivian Grey
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698205598
Recounts the life of the French chemist whose work helped transform many of the undocumented scientific beliefs of the Middle Ages into an exact science.
Author : Lisa Yount
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766065243
Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. Using experiments and careful measurements, he created a system to help chemists understand how matter behaves. He discovered and named oxygen and hydrogen, and helped set up a system to classify these and other elements. Perhaps his most famous discovery is the role oxygen plays in combustion.
Author : Henry Guerlac
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Science Pub
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782881244049
Before Henry Guerlac's book, we knew little about the reasons that led the great chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier to discover the role of air in combustion. Henry Guerlac finds that this breakthrough that began the Chemical Revolution did not come "ex nihilo," as many historians claim. Rather, it marked the culmination of research by British and French chemists, radically refashioned by Lavoisier and his disciples. Henry Guerlac portrays Lavoisier integrating Continental and British chemical traditions. Like New ton in physics and Darwin in biology, Lavoisier was a revolutionary. This work presents his in a vigorous and innovative light.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0192840991
This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a system with four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - to the modern-day scientists who are able to create their own.
Author : Jean-Pierre Poirier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812216490
Originally published in French in 1993 (Editions Pygmalion/Gerard Watelet, Paris), and expanded and revised for this translation. The founder of modern chemistry, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was active on commisions connected with agriculture, gunpowder, banking, and finance, and was ultimately executed during the Reign of Terror. This biography recounts Lavoisier's scientific accomplishments and his role in the chemical revolution and early history of organic chemistry and physiology; but it is in the examination of his political and economic activities and accomplishments that it breaks new ground. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR