Book ID: CBB000101158

Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (2001)

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Beretta, Marco (Author)


Science History Publications


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xvii + 126 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses well known portrait of Lavoisier with his wife, identifies instruments shown and discusses other images showing Lavoisier experimenting.


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Review Knight, David (2003) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 96). unapi

Review Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón (2001) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Cronos: Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia (p. 124). unapi

Review Fara, Patricia (2003) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 242). unapi

Review Coley, Noel (2004) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (p. 233). unapi

Review Poirier, Jean-Pierre (2003) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

Review Morris, Peter J. T. (2003) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Hyle (p. 119). unapi

Review Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón (2001) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". Cronos: Cuadernos Valencianos de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia (p. 124). unapi

Review Abbri, Ferdinando (2002) Review of "Imaging a Career in Science: The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 314). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beretta, Marco
Gabriella Giannachi
Voss, Julia
Viel, Claude
Spector, Tami I.
Shea, William R.
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Hyle
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
The MIT Press
Science History Publications
Routledge
Franco Angeli
Brill
Boydell Press
Concepts
Chemistry
Experiments and experimentation
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Portraits
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and art
People
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Wright, Joseph
Newton, Isaac
Lavoisier, Marie-Anne Paulze
d'Arcet, Jean
Göttling, Johann Friedrich August
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
France
Europe
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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