Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Antoine Lavoisier
Born: August 26, 1743
Died: May 8, 1794 (aged 50)
Bio: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
Known for:
- Elements of chemistry
- Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (1789)
- Memoir on Heat