Like Charles Seife_x0092_s Zero and Dava Sobel_x0092_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_x0097_the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine_x0097_A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
- ISBN:
- 9780143038832
- 9780143038832
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Category:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
-
27-02-2007
- Publisher:
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 448
- Dimensions (mm):
- 214x140x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.42kg
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