Antoine Lavoisier: The Father of Modern Chemistry — The Complete Audiobook
He weighed the world and founded a science — and the Revolution guillotined him for his other job. Antoine Lavoisier was a Paris lawyer's son who never practised law: at twenty-five he bought into the Ferme Générale, the tax company France hated most, and used its fortune to build the finest private laboratory in Europe at the Paris Arsenal. There, with his wife Marie-Anne — married at thirteen, and soon his illustrator, translator and laboratory partner — he replaced guesswork with the precision balance.
Nearly eleven hours of listening trace the whole double life: the sealed-flask experiments that demolished phlogiston, the invisible "fire air" Priestley showed him over dinner; the naming of oxygen and hydrogen and the list of elements the world still uses; the gunpowder administration that armed a revolution; the Traité Élémentaire de Chimie of 1789, the first modern chemistry textbook; and the metric-system work that still measures the planet. Then the Revolution he welcomed turns on the tax farmers: the arrest, the trial of twenty-eight men, and the scaffold on 8 May 1794 — and the afterlife of his ideas, rescued by Marie-Anne and carried into every laboratory on Earth.
Inside this biography:
Chapter 1: A Paris Inheritance (1743–1766)
Chapter 2: The Tax Farmer (1766–1771)
Chapter 3: The Arsenal Laboratory (1771–1775)
Chapter 4: Killing Phlogiston (1775–1783)
Chapter 5: Naming the Elements (1783–1787)
Chapter 6: The Traité (1787–1789)
Chapter 7: The Revolution Turns (1789–1791)
Chapter 8: The Net Closes (1791–1793)
Chapter 9: The Tribunal (1793–1794)
Chapter 10: The Afterlife of a Revolution (1794–Today)
Format: MP3 ZIP file audiobook, delivered as chapter files, yours to keep and play anywhere.
