Book ID: CBB000600699

A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen (2005)

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Jackson, Joe (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: 414 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Basu, Prajit K.
Dee Ann Castel
Best, Nicholas W.
Silva, Marcos Rodrigues da
Schütt, Hans-Werner
Miller, David Philip
Journals
Science and Education
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Publishers
Wiley-VCH
Suhrkamp
Science History
Riverhead Books
Indiana University
University of Iowa
Concepts
Chemistry
Oxygen
Phlogiston
Discovery in science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Philosophy of science
People
Priestley, Joseph
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm
Woodhouse, Benjamin
Watt, James
Mitchill, Samuel Latham
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
France
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Europe
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