Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries... Third Edition

by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

$550 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Robert Kerr (1755-1813) made the first English translation of Lavoisier?s Traité elementaire de Chimie (Paris, 1789). Printing & the Mind of Man headlines the original edition as "A new epoch in chemistry." A more recent analysis pinpoints the importance of this book: "Lavoisier's most fundamental innovations transformed how one presents..... More

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