Lavoisier

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Lavoisier: Antoine Lavoisier: (1743-1794)

"Lavoisier was really identifying the reality. Lavoisier, like Democritus, could see the invisible. Priestly didn't weight the air under the bell jar; he just weighed the small objects. Fire turned out to be just swift oxidation separating the air into separate constituents. All the products, water, vapor, etc., all weigh more. We hadn't learned how to weigh nothingness."

Citations

1. RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. '71.