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

By Jackson, Joe

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Books › Biography & Autobiography › General

Books › History › Expeditions & Discoveries

ISBN: 0670034347 / Publisher: Viking Adult, June 2005

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Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air." Read More
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