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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
A World on Fire A Heretic an Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen
Author: Joe Jackson
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...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780143038832
ISBN-10: 0143038834
Publication Date: 2/27/2007
Pages: 432
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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