The Arsenal of the Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), by Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni

• Ferdinando Abbri ^[1]
  1. [1] Università degli Studi di Siena

     Università degli Studi di Siena

     Siena, Italia

     
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  • Bibliographic review about the Marco Beretta's and Paolo Brenni's book entitled The Arsenal of the Eighteenth-Century Chemistry. The laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794). Some pioneering historians of the Chemical Revolution were aware that Lavoisier's collection of scientific instruments represented one of the most well equipped, private laboratories of Europe at that time, and that the destiny of such a collection and of his papers had been very difficult and complicated. because of the political revolution of 1789 and Lavoisier's tragic death. The volume is divides in two parts. In the first part, entitled Lavoisier's laboratory Networks, Beretta presents a detailed biographical profile of Lavoisier, adopting as a leitmotiv of his narrative Lavoisier's scientific instruments and laboratories and integrating this latter asect into the historical frame of Parisian chemical laboratories that had been active at the time of Lavoisier's debut in the scientific scene. The second chapter focuses on Lavoisier's approach to chemical instrument manufacturing, showing the eperimental practices of his timeand providing a reconstruction of Lavoisier's role in the development of the production of instruments by Paris manufacturers