Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

by Madison Smartt Bell Narrated by Arthur Morey

Overview

Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists.

Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry-a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin-also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.

Editorial Reviews

Jacob Heilbrunn

"A two-part thriller. The first describes Lavoisier’s successful effort to win the race to explain how chemical processes work; the second, his pursuit by French revolutionaries."

Los Angeles Times Book Review - Merle Rubin

"Bell succeeds, not only in depicting the rigorousness of Lavoisier’s method, but also in conveying a sense of his character, as revealed most affectingly by the quietly heroic composure with which he faced his own death."

New York Times Book Review

A two-part thriller. The first describes Lavoisier’s successful effort to win the race to explain how chemical processes work; the second, his pursuit by French revolutionaries.”

Booklist

Portrays a visionary who freed chemistry from its alchemical roots, helped establish the practice of systematic experimentation, and isolated and named oxygen…Writing with equal panache about scientific breakthroughs and social upheaval…Bell portrays Lavoisier and his gifted wife with admiration and empathy.”

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bell succeeds, not only in depicting the rigorousness of Lavoisier’s method, but also in conveying a sense of his character.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176647907
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Series:	The Great Discoveries Series
Edition description:	Unabridged

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