Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, Présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes - 1793

Rare illustrated edition of this foundational work of modern chemistry that systematizes recent discoveries and proposes a new scientific nomenclature, breaking with the old alchemical and phlogistic tradition.

Volume II develops the practical and theoretical applications of the new method, presenting experiments on combustion, respiration, metal calcination, and the composition of air and water, while also introducing a classification of substances based on their constituent elements.

Lavoisier affirmed the central role of oxygen in chemical phenomena, which revolutionized previous conceptions and established a rational basis for the study of reactions.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, Presented in a new order and based on modern discoveries - 1783 - Volume II - Cuchet
viii, 327 pages

Good condition of the binding, book in its original brown half-leather, marbled boards, signs of use, rubbed headbands and corners, blue speckled edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded titling and volume number on red morocco inlays.

Good interior condition, some foxing, work adorned with twelve folding engraved plates at the end of the work.

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