Read Antoine Lavoisier's Memoir on the Nature of the Principle which Combines with Metals during their Calcination and which Increases their Weight, free from LeMoyne College.
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From the Catholic Encyclopedia (1910):
Antoine Lavoisier — Chemist, philosopher, economist; born in Paris, 26 August, 1743; guillotined 8 May, 1794. He was the son of Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, a lawyer of distinction, and Emilie Punctis, who belonged to a rich and influential family, and who died when Antoine-Laurent was five years old. His early years were most carefully guarded by his aunt, Mlle Constance Punctis, to whom he was devotedly attached; and through her assistance he was secured the advantage of agood education. He attended the College Mazarin, which was noted for its faculty of science, and here he studied mathematics and astronomy under Abbé de la Caille, who had built an observatory at the college after having won renown by measuring an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good Hope, by determining the length of the second's pendulum, and by his catalogue of the stars.
Read Antoine Lavoisier's Memoir on the Nature of the Principle which Combines with Metals during their Calcination and which Increases their Weight, free from LeMoyne College.
Read Antoine Lavoisier's Memoir on the Nature of the Principle which Combines with Metals during their Calcination and which Increases their Weight, free from LeMoyne College.
