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A World on Fire: Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
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A World on Fire: Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen in Franklin, TN
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A World on Fire: Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen in Franklin, TN
Current price: $24.00
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Like Charles Seifes
Zero
and Dava Sobels
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 Lavoisierthe former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine
A World on Fire
illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
Zero
and Dava Sobels
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 Lavoisierthe former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine
A World on Fire
illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
Like Charles Seifes
Zero
and Dava Sobels
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 Lavoisierthe former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine
A World on Fire
illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
Zero
and Dava Sobels
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 Lavoisierthe 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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