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.…mehr
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.
A World On FirePrologue: God in the Air Part I: Problem 1. The Cloth-Dresser's Son 2. The Sums and Receipts of Parallel Worlds 3. The Gas in the Beer 4. The Prodigy 5. The Goodness of Air 6. The Problem of Burning Part II: Solution 7. The Sentimental Journey 8. The Mouse in the Jar 9. The Twelve Days 10. The Language of War 11. "King Mob" 12. The World Out of Joint 13. The New World Epilogue: The Burning World Dramatis Personae Chronology Glossary of Chemical, Historical, and Scientific Terms Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
A World On FirePrologue: God in the Air Part I: Problem 1. The Cloth-Dresser's Son 2. The Sums and Receipts of Parallel Worlds 3. The Gas in the Beer 4. The Prodigy 5. The Goodness of Air 6. The Problem of Burning Part II: Solution 7. The Sentimental Journey 8. The Mouse in the Jar 9. The Twelve Days 10. The Language of War 11. "King Mob" 12. The World Out of Joint 13. The New World Epilogue: The Burning World Dramatis Personae Chronology Glossary of Chemical, Historical, and Scientific Terms Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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