Like Charles Seife's "Zero" and Dava Sobel's "Longitude," this
passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of
science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered
oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as
radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed
by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of
the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman
Antoine Lavoisier--the former exiled, the latter executed on the
guillotine--"A World on Fire" illustrates the perilous place of
science in an age of unreason.
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