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A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen / Joe Jackson.
- Title
- A world on fire : a heretic, an aristocrat, and the race to discover oxygen / Joe Jackson.
- Author
- Jackson, Joe, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Viking, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QD181.O1 J33 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 414 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-395) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: God in the air -- 1. The cloth-dresser's son -- 2. The sums and receipts of parallel worlds -- 3. The gas in the beer -- 4. The prodigy -- 5. The goodness of air -- 6. The problem of burning -- 7. The sentimental journey -- 8. The mouse in the jar -- 9. The twelve days -- 10. The language of war -- 11. "King Mob" -- 12. The world out of joint -- 13. The new world -- Epilogue: the burning world.
- ISBN
- 0670034347
- LCCN
- ^^2004065103
- OCLC
- 57373687
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library