Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, investigating the existence of oxygen in the air, 1873. Artist: Unknown

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, investigating the existence of oxygen in the air, 1873. This was the experiment in which Lavoisier (1743-1794), regarded as the founder of the modern science of chemistry, obtained mercuric oxide. From The Atmosphere by Camille Flammarion. (London, 1873).

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