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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
by Jackson, Joe
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670034347
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034345
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
Like Charles Seifes Zero and Dava Sobels Longitude , this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisierthe former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011000
- Title
- A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
- Author
- Jackson, Joe
- Illustrator
- Joseph Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670034347
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034345
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Jackson, Joe A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen Joseph Wright Viking 0670034347 -----The scan you se is the book you get. Red & black boards with gilt, headband, 414 pages plus 8 pages of b & w photos
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Science;
- Size
- 8vo
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- Headband
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- Fine
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