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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

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A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen

by Jackson, Joe

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9780670034345
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New York: Viking, 2005. Hardcover. Very good condition/very good. 414 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index.

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Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s 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 Lavoisier—the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine— A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.

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Title
A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen
Author
Jackson, Joe
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very good condition
Jacket Condition
very good
Quantity Available
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ISBN 10
0670034347
ISBN 13
9780670034345
Publisher
Viking
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2005
Keywords
Oxygen; Science--Europe--History--18th century

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