Person1743 – 1794
Antoine Lavoisier
Also called: Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
French chemist who established the conservation of mass and explained the role of oxygen, founding modern chemistry, but was executed during the Revolution
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In 1789 Lavoisier published his Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, establishing the conservation of mass and combustion by oxygen and ordering the concept of the elements — the founding of modern chemistry.
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution