1890 La Revolution Chimique Lavoisier

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work, with illustrated frontispiece.

French chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot was inspired to complete this work after being called, in 1889, to give a lecture commemorating men of science. Berthelot prepared extensive material on the French nobleman and chemist Antoine Lavoisier, a man central to the eighteenth century chemical revolution, and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion, recognising and naming oxygen and hydrogen.

Containing excerpts and paraphrases from Lavoisier's notebooks.

With a thirty two page publisher's catalogue, dated November 1890, to the rear.

With a former owner's inscription, dated 1958, to the front free endpaper.