MARAT, Jean-Paul.

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Recherches physiques sur le feu. First edition of the first major work of experimental science by the French revolutionary, notable for its focus on the practical applications of heat and fire.Prior to the French Revolution, Marat had worked hard to establish a reputation as a conscientious and iconoclastic scientist. The Recherches physiques takes particular exception to Lavoisier's new oxygen theory of fire, sparking an animosity between the two men that Marat was to pursue politically during the Revolution.

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