Great Discoveries Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, Book 0, (Paperback)

from JBD1

A pretty basic overview of Lavoisier's scientific accomplishments, placing him in proper context. Like others in this series this book may just not offer enough space for a complete look. Bell's analysis is interesting, but would have benefited greatly from more images (he discusses images in the...

from Devil_llama

A decent look at the life of an interesting man, the great Antoine Lavoisier, rightly considered the father of modern chemistry. The book focuses specifically on the last year of Lavoisier's life, just before he lost his head on the guillotine, but does cover a great deal of ground previously to ...

from NielsenGW

Bell's intriguing history of Revolutionary France and science advanced thereabouts is indeed riveting. Well, about as riveting as the chase for oxygen can be, anyways. She weaves together the social and the scientific, the patriotic and the political (sometimes too much), and ends up with a great...

from hcubic

There is supposedly a Chinese curse, "May he live in interesting times". While the origin of this phrase is apparently not really in China, it certainly applies to the life of one of the first modern chemists. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman who lived from 1743 until he was beh...

from evenlake

Really disjointed and jarringly edited in some places. Went from "this happened, then this happened, then this happened" type of history, and would then make a sudden jump to another event without any real transition. Don't know if this was the writer or the editor, but it doesn't really matter. ...