The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry : : The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) / / Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni.

• Superior document: Nuncius Series ; 10
• VerfasserIn: Beretta, Marco,; Brenni, Paolo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brenni, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2022
• Γλώσσα: English
• Σειρά: Nuncius Series ; 10.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (469 pages)
• Σημειώσεις: The first complete and detailed catalogue of Lavoisier’s collection of instruments preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The story of the collection is carefully reconstructed and its instruments (all illustrated) are described in detail.

The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier’s apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most important. The present study provides the first scientific catalogue of Lavoisier’s surviving app...