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A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat, And The Race To Discover Oxygen
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Joe Jackson
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Viking Pr
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Pages
414
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780670034345
ISBN-10
0670034347
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.45 lbs.
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$27.95
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sci/tech
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Summary
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. 25,000 first printing.
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Hardcover
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from Viking Pr (October 6, 2005)
9780670034345 | details & prices | 414 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $27.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (February 27, 2007)
9780143038832 | details & prices | 414 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $16.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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