A World on Fire

A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen

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A World on Fire

A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen

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Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's 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 Lavoisier-the 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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Publisher
Viking Adult
Language
English
Pages
432

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Cover of: A World on Fire
A World on Fire
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: A World on Fire
A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
February 27, 2007, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: A world on fire
Cover of: A World on Fire
A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
October 6, 2005, Viking Adult
Hardcover in English

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First Sentence

"A GOOD MEAL CHANGES EVERYTHING."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
9 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7641309M
Internet Archive
worldonfireheret00jack
ISBN 10
0670034347
ISBN 13
9780670034345
Library Thing
1488535
Goodreads
1558218

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A GOOD MEAL CHANGES EVERYTHING.
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