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Perhaps...some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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Antoine Lavoisier
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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
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