Antoine Lavoisier's apparatus for weighing gases, 1789. Artist: Unknown

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Antoine Lavoisier's apparatus for weighing gases, 1789. The discoverer of oxygen, French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) is regarded as the founder of the modern science of chemistry. From his Traite Elementaire de Chimie. (Paris, 1789).

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