Click the Google Preview button to take a look inside this book. Antoine LavoisierFounder of Modern Chemistry, Revised EditionSeries: Great Minds of ScienceBy Lisa Yount DetailsDetails ReviewsReviews Antoine Lavoisier used experiments and careful measurements to create a system to help chemists understand how matter behaved. His experiments on combustion showed that oxygen played a key part in the burning process. Lavoisier shared his ideas with many of the other great scientists of his day, including Benjamin Franklin. For his many accomplishments, Antoine Lavoisier is remembered today as the founder of modern chemistry and one of the great minds of science.Publication Date: 07/01/2008Copyright: 2009Pages: 128Trim Size: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4Illustrations: Illus. with color and black-and-white photographsGrade Level: 5–upAge Level: 10–upLC Number: 2007020299ATOS Reading Level: 6.2ATOS Points: 2.0Quiz #: 122038AR Interest Level: MGDewey: 540.92FormatsFormatISBNList PriceDiscount PriceLibrary Bound Book978-0-7660-3011-4$35.93$26.95 "These revised editions recount important scientific developments and discoveries as well as provide information about the scientists' lives. The writing is generally straightforward . . ."The Horn Book Guide, Fall 2008"This is more than a biography, it is a history of the development of chemistry."TriState Young Adult Book Review Committee, May 2008 Loading… Other books in Great Minds of Science 1234 Loading… Other books from the authors 1 Loading… Library Bound Book: 978-0-7660-3011-4 List Price: $35.93 Discount Price: $26.95 + Add to wish list Please log in Log in or register to create a wish list. Login or Register Loading… -----OR----- Click to buy at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble