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Anastaltic print from the Cuchet Paris edition of 1789. Two volumes. Twelve folding plates, 2 folding tables, numerous tables, index. Beautiful binding with gold-stamped red leather spine pieces.
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, ci-devant de Lavoisier, born August 26, 1743 in Paris and guillotined May 8, 1794, in Paris, is a French chemist, philosopher and economist, often presented as the father of modern chemistry, who will develop in from the bases and notions he established and from a new requirement for precision offered by the instruments he developed. He inaugurated the scientific method, both experimental and mathematical, in this field which, unlike mechanics, seemed destined to escape it.
Beyond the discoveries of oxidation, of the components of air and water, of the state of matter, his contributions to the chemical revolution are at once technical, experimental and epistemological. They result from a conscious effort to adapt all experiments within the framework of a simple theory in which, for the first time, the modern notion of element is presented in a systematic way. Lavoisier established the consistent use of chemical equilibrium, used his research on oxygen, whose name he coined, nitrogen and hydrogen to overthrow the phlogiston theory, developed a new chemical nomenclature which supports, that which will prove to be incorrect, that oxygen is an essential constituent of all acids. A precursor of stoichiometry, he especially translated reactions into chemical equations which respect the law of conservation of matter, giving it a solid experimental foundation.
A financier by profession, anxious to establish precise statistics useful for what he called, following Condorcet, political arithmetic, he was called upon by the royal and then revolutionary administration on a large number of subjects from public education to hygiene through the monetary system. He also produced, in the wake of Joseph Black, the first experimental theory of heat, through the study not only of combustion but also of respiration and soil fermentation. His major works remain the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry (1789) and the Method of Chemical Nomenclature (1787). (cf. Wikipedia) 67199911