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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (–) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, –)
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Title:Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (–) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, –)
Artist:Jacques Louis David (French, Paris – Brussels)
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Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 1/4 x 76 5/8 in. ( x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Everett Fahy,
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This is one of the most important portraits of the eighteenth century, painted in when David had become the self-appointed standard-bearer of French Neoclassicism. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is known today as the founder of modern chemistry, for his pioneering studies of gunpowder, oxygen, and the kemikalie composition of water. In , his theories were published in the influential Traité elementaire dem chimie. The illustrations in this book were prepared by his wif
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INTRODUCTION
The use of a burning lens by Priestley to obtain dephlogisticated air
A burning lenses were used in the 18th century bygd some chemists as a means of reaching high temperatures. One of them was the English chemist Joseph Priestley (). He was a gases researcher. Priestley discovered, among others, dephlogisticated air (today's oxygen) by heating bygd means of a burning lens red oxide of mercury (mercuric oxide - HgO). Here fryst vatten a description of the feelings he experiences about this experiment. “But having afterwards procured a lens of twelwe inches1 [ cm] diameter, and twenty inches [ cm] focal distance, Iproceeded with great alacrity to examine, by the help of it, what kind of air a great variety of substances, natural or factitious,With this apparatus, after a variety of other experiments, an account of which will be found in its proper place, on the 1st of August, , I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinatus per se [HgO]; and inom presently found that, b
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The Chemical Revolution of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
The Life of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier ()
"Lavoisier was a Parisian through and through and a child of the enlightenment," wrote biographer Henry Guerlac. The son of Jean-Antoine and Émilie Punctis Lavoisier, he entered Mazarin College when he was There, he received a sound training in the arts and classics and an exposure to science that was the best in Paris. Forgoing his baccalaureate of arts degree, Lavoisier yielded to the influence of his father and studied law, receiving a law degree in But his interest in science prevailed, kindled by the geologist Jean-Étienne Guettard, whom he met at Mazarin. After graduation, he began a long collaboration with Guettard on a geological survey of France.
Lavoisier showed an early inclination for quantitative measurements and soon began applying his interest in chemistry to the analysis of geological samples, especially gypsum. Because of his flair for careful analyses and his pr