Antoine Lavoisier: References & Edit History
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Henry Guerlac, “Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 8 (1973), pp. 66–91, is a fully annotated biographical article of Lavoisier’s scientific contributions. For more extensive accounts of Lavoisier’s science and life, see Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity (1985); Arthur Donovan, Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution (1993, reissued 1996); and Jean-Pierre Poirier, Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist (1996, reissued 1998; originally published in French, 1993).
A definitive annotated survey of Lavoisier’s writing is presented in Denis I. Duveen and Herbert S. Klickstein, A Bibliography of the Works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743–1794 (1954), with a Supplement (1965). Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Oeuvres de Lavoisier, 6 vol. (1862–93, reprinted 1965), is a collected edition that includes all his principal works and memoirs from the academy volumes, as well as numerous miscellaneous writings.
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Antoine de Lavoisiers role in designing a single-blind trial to assess whether Animal Magnetism exists. | Jul 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Antoine de Lavoisiers role in designing a single-blind trial to assess whether Animal Magnetism exists. | Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Physiological Society Publications - The collaboration of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier and the first measurements of human oxygen consumption. | Jun 25, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, M�moires de physiques et de chimie, 2 vols. (Bristol: The Thoemmes Press, 2004) (PDF). | Jan 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indian Academy Sciences - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Europa-Universit�t Flensburg - Biography: Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier. | Aug 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Lavoisier Antoine Laurent. | Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Antoine Lavoisier. | Aug 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Chemical Society - The Chemical Revolution of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | Feb 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Lavoisier. | Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Jan 25, 2021 | ||
| Changed article title from "Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier" to "Antoine Lavoisier." | Mar 27, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Mar 17, 2017 | ||
| Added new media of Lavoisier. | Mar 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Creighton University - The History of Gas Chemistry - Biography of Antoine Lavoisier. | Dec 28, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemical Heritage Foundation - Biography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | Mar 27, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - Biography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | Mar 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: H2g2 - Biography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | Mar 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History Learning Site - Biography of Antoine Lavoisier. | Mar 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Lavoisier Antoine Laurent. | Mar 25, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - Biography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Antoine Lavoisier. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: DePaul University - Biography of Elijah Parish Lovejoy. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Prehistoric Wildlife.com - Coelophysis. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Science History Institute Museum and Library - Biography of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. | May 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: United States History - Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 26, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |