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Lavoisier in the Year One
Madison Smartt Bell
其他書名
The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
出版W.W. Norton, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / Science & TechnologyScience / GeneralScience / Chemistry / GeneralScience / HistoryTechnology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical
ISBN03930515529780393051551
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LvJ9UI7fCzAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Antoine Lavoisier--who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the French Revolution--was himself a revolutionary. Closely followed by the burgeoning international scientific community, he competed with the best minds of his time to be the first to explain how chemical processes really work. Aided by a large fortune and his accomplished wife, he employed the most ingenious and expensive technology of his time in a series of innovative experiments that forever buried medieval alchemy and established a chemical language still in use today. Yet his personal triumph was short-lived, and the glory his achievement brought France could not protect him from the ravages of the Terror.--From publisher description.