A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen Hardcover - 2005
by Jackson, Joe
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
In the final decades of the 1700s, as the threat of revolution began to dim the radiance of the Enlightenment, two brilliant scientists simultaneously achieved a breakthrough that would alter the course of human thought and history: they discovered oxygen. The humble English dissenter Joseph Priestley and the French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier were unlikely competitors, but their fierce rivalry to solve the 'riddle of air' became a kind of eighteenth-century space race, a contest made all the more exciting by the tumult of their time.
In A World on Fire, acclaimed writer Joe Jackson brings to life the seismic intellectual and political shifts that ushered in modern science. Set against the conflagrations of the American Revolution, the storming of the Bastille, and the Reign of Terror, Jackson's narrative deftly weaves together biography and history, scientific passion and political will. With their discoveries inside the laboratory paving the way for the identification of the elements as well as modern atomic physics and the tragedy of their downfalls, Priestley and Lavoisier epitomize the plight of the scientist in the modern age. With A World on Fire, Jackson has transformed their story into a spellbinding work of narrative nonfiction.
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- Title A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen
- Author Jackson, Joe
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 414
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U. S. A.
- Date 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 042410
- ISBN 9780670034345 / 0670034347
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.4 x 1.43 in (23.27 x 16.26 x 3.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004065103
- Dewey Decimal Code 546.721