Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: 'Elements of Chemistry in a New S...

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: 'Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order Containing all the Modern Discoveries. Illustrated with Thirteen Copperplates. Second Edition with Notes, Tables and Considerable Additions', translated from the French by Robert Kerr, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1793, 2nd edition, 13 engraved folding plates depicting various laboratory apparatus as called for, plus 2 folding charts, xlviii,592pp, contemporary calf, later rebacked. Scientific work by Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), prominent French chemist and leading figure in the 18th-century chemical revolution, who developed an experimentally based theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen and coauthored the modern system for naming chemical substances. Having also served as a leading financier and public administrator before the French Revolution, he was executed with other financiers during the Terror.