A WORLD ON FIRE (REPRINT)

JACKSON, JOE / A WORLD ON FIRE (REPRINT)

JACKSON, JOE

Genre: books > history > world
Format: Book - Paperback
Released: Mon 3 Sep 2007
Catalogue Number: 9780143038832

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Traces the breakthrough discovery of oxygen at the end of the 1700s by a pair of rival scientists, describing how English dissenter Joseph Priestley and French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier waged a fierce competition to solve the "riddle of air" in spite of such historical challenges as the American Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Details:
  • Publisher: PENGUIN USA
  • Subject Development: History
  • Geographic Designator: Western Europe
  • Academic Level: General Adult
  • Depth (m): 0.025
  • Dewey: 509
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Height (m): 0.216
  • Pages: 414
  • Place Of Publication: United States
  • Published Date: Tue 27 Feb 2007
  • Weight (g): 408
  • Width (m): 0.146

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