Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution, Arthur Donovan's 1993 academic biography from Blackwell, reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press in 1996, gives equal attention to Lavoisier's development of the oxygen theory of combustion against phlogiston and to his career as a public administrator before and during the French Revolution. Its strength is that it was reviewed on publication as the definitive English language introduction to Lavoisier. Its limit is that a single biography's balance between scientific and administrative material is one author's synthesis, open to be weighed against other historians of chemistry's accounts.
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Tier one: an academic biography reviewed on publication as the definitive English language introduction to Lavoisier, later reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press. Its balance between the scientific and administrative material is one historian's synthesis, open to be weighed against other historians of chemistry's accounts. NotesDevotes equal attention to Lavoisier's development of the oxygen theory of combustion against phlogiston and to his career as a public administrator before and during the French Revolution; reviewed on publication as the definitive English-language introduction.
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AuthorArthur Donovan
PublisherBlackwell (reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Publication Year1993
Source Typeacademic biography
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