History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) From the earliest time to the middle of the nineteenth century
CHAPTER VIII
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Downfall of phlogistonism. Lavoisier: his life and work. His death. _Le principe oxygine._ Principle of the conservation of matter. Chemistry a science of quantitative relations. Prominent anti-phlogistians. Berthollet. The _Statique Chimique_. Fourcroy. Vauquelin. Klaproth. Proust.