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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen Paperback - 2007
by Joe Jackson
This gripping account of a key tipping point in the history of science is set against the upheavals of a revolutionary age. 8-page photo insert.
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Like Charles Seifes Zero and Dava Sobels Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisierthe former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotineA World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
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A GOOD MEAL CHANGES EVERYTHING.
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- Title A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
- Author Joe Jackson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date February 27, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143038832 / 0143038834
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.54 x 1 in (21.44 x 14.07 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Discoveries in science, Oxygen
- Dewey Decimal Code 546.721
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An exhilarating narrative, sweeping us through great discoveries and international rivalries, yet strengthened by meticulous research and analysis. (Jenny Uglow, author of The Lunar Men)
This tale of eminent scientists victimized by political ideology is told with passion and a splendid attention to vivid detail. (Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times)
This tale of eminent scientists victimized by political ideology is told with passion and a splendid attention to vivid detail. (Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times)
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