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A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen
de Jackson, Joe
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- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very good condition/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670034347
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034345
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New York: Viking, 2005. Hardcover. Very good condition/very good. 414 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index.
Sinopsis
Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude , this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier—the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine— A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 45999
- Título
- A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen
- Autor
- Jackson, Joe
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670034347
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034345
- Editorial
- Viking
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- Oxygen; Science--Europe--History--18th century
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