Antoine Lavoisier's apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen (left) and oxygen (right), 1881. Artist: Unknown

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Antoine Lavoisier's apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen (left) and oxygen (right), 1881. The discoverer of oxygen, French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) is regarded as the founder of the modern science of chemistry. From A Popular History of Science. (London, 1881).

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