La révolution chimique Lavoisier. Ouvrage suivi de notices et extraits des registres inédits de laboratoire de Lavoisier.

BERTHELOT, Marcellin:

Published by Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer-Ballière, 1890., 1890

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First Edition. Frontispiece, xii, 334 pp; ads. Original cloth. Tiny nick to front joint, else Very Good+. 'In 1889, to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution, Berthelot . . . was called upon to commemorate men of science. He prepared material for a lecture on Lavoisier, and on the basis of this and Grimaux's study of 1888 he produced a book, La révolution chimique, Lavoisier. One detects special sympathy by the patriotic nineteenth-century French chemist for the eighteenth-century liberal who had also used his scientific knowledge to help his country. Berthelot's publication of extracts from the laboratory notebooks of Lavoisier, which were in the possession of the Academy, performed a valuable service to the history of science. Whatever criticisms may be leveled at Berthelot's earlier publications on the history of chemistry, this study was an astonishing achievement' (D.S.B. II: 64). 'Still valuable, especially for its excerpts and paraphrases from Lavoisier's laboratory notebooks' (D.S.B. VIII: 88). Duveen, p. 72. Seller Inventory # 07714

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Title: La révolution chimique Lavoisier. Ouvrage ...

Publisher: Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer-Ballière, 1890.

Publication Date: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition