LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
1743 – 1794
10 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Jacques-Louis David · Metropolitan Museum of Art : entry 436106 (accession number: 1977.10) · Public domain
1778 CE
#922
Mémoire sur la nature du principe qui se combine avec les métaux pendantleur calcination, et qui en augmente le poids.
Although Priestley isolated oxygen, it was Lavoisier who discovered its real significance. He showed the true nature of the interchange of gases in the lungs and exploded Stahl’s phlogiston theory. Lavoisier was…
1784 CE
#592
Mémoire sur la chaleur.
These workers invented an ice calorimeter, with it measured the respiratory quotient of a pig, and demonstrated the analogy between respiration and combustion.
1784 CE
#923
Mémoire sur la formation de l’acide, nommé air fixe ou acide crayeux, et que je désignerai désormais sous le nom d’acid du charbon.
1784 CE
#4992.2
Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi, de l’examen du magnétisme animal. Edited by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
Responding to Mesmer’s growing notoriety, the Medical Faculty of Paris became alarmed, and urged the King to appoint a blue-ribbon committee of inquiry. The committee included Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Laurent …
1785 CE
#924
Mémoire sur l’affinité du principe oxygine avec les différentes substances auxquelles il est susceptible de s’unir.
1786 CE
#13176
Académie Royale des Sciences. Extrait des registres . . . du 22 novembre 1786. Rapport des commissaires charges par l'Académie, de l'examen du project d'un nouvel Hotel-Dieu.
Lavoisier was a member of the committee appointed by the French Academy of Sciences to report on the state of Parisian hospitals and on the plan to construct a new hospital on the Isle des Cygnes. The committee's repo…
1793 CE
#594
Premier mémoire sur la respiration des animaux.
Séguin and Lavoisier measured the metabolism of a man (Séguin himself). They made three observations of fundamental importance in this respect; that the intensity of oxidation in man is dependent upon (1…
1954 CE–1965 CE
#11218
A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794
Mostly written by Herbert S. Klickstein for the collector Denis Duveen.
1995 CE
#9572
Bibliotheca Lavoisieriana: The catalogue of the library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
2022 CE
#14052
The arsenal of eighteenth-century chemistry: The laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) by Marco Beretta and Paolo Brenni.
"The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier’s apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most importa…