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The arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry : the laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
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The arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry : the laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) / by Marco Beretta, Paolo Brenni.
ISBN
9789004408692
900440869X
9789004511217
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Physical Description
xiv, 453 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
Summary
"The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most important. The present study provides the first scientific catalogue of Lavoisier's surviving apparatus. This collection of instruments is remarkable not only for the quality of many of them but, above all, for the number of items that have survived (ca. 600 items). Given such a wealth and variety of instruments, this study also offers the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct the cultural and social context of Lavoisier's experimental activities"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Beretta, Marco. Arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2022
Series
Nuncius series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 10
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Foreword / Robert G.W. Anderson
Preface / Marco Beretta, Paolo Brenni
The chemical laboratories in Paris (1743-1776)
Lavoisier's approach to chemical instrument making
Lavoisier's sites of experimental practice : from the field to the laboratory (1764-1794)
The cost of Lavoisier's laboratory
The chemical revolution on stage : Lavoisier's collection of instruments (1789-2020)
Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Lavoisier's instruments in the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
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