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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
Author: Joe Jackson
In the final decades of the 1700s, as the threat of revolution began to dim the radiance of the Enlightenment, two brilliant scientists simultaneously achieved a breakthrough that would alter the course of human thought and history: they discovered oxygen. The humble English dissenter Joseph Priestley and the French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670034345
ISBN-10: 0670034347
Publication Date: 10/6/2005
Pages: 432
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Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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