Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution

by Arthur Donovan

Book Overview

First published in 1993, this biography, first published in 1993, represents a comprehensive, accessible account of the great eighteenth-century French chemist and administrator, Antoine Lavoisier. Historians of science know Lavoisier as a founder of modern chemistry. Students of the French Revolution know him as an important financier and administrator in the final decades of the old regime and as the most famous scientist to be guillotined during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052156672X
• ISBN13: 9780521566728
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"