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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Lithograph by Sommariva.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Stipple engraving by F. Pigeot after himself.

Antoine Lavoisier: statue; Lavoisier in his laboratory: bas-relief at base of plinth: Place de la Madeleine, Paris. Photograph by Giraudon, ca. 1930, of a bronze sculpture and bas-relief by Ernest-Louis Barrias, ca. 1880.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Line engraving by J. Caldwall, 1801, after J. Opie after J. L. David.

A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.

A man seated in a barrel with his head under a glass canopy; he breathes and his pulse is taken; Lavoisier dictates to his wife who is writing a report. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.

Lavoisier in his laboratory conducting an experiment on the respiration of a man at work. Photogravure after M.A.P. Lavoisier.

Joseph Priestley (above) and Antoine Lavoisier (below) Line engraving by R. Caldwall, 1801, after J. Opie and J.-L. David.

Lavoisier : 1743-1794 d'après sa correspondance, ses manuscrits, ses papiers de famille et d'autres documents inédits / par Édouard Grimaux. Avec dix gravures hors texte en taille-douce et en typographie.

Antoine Lavoisier : scientist, economist, social reformer / [Douglas McKie].

Lavoisier / by J.A. Cochrane.

Schets der leere van Lavoisier / door Martinus van Marum ; met een voorrede van A.H.C.A. Wiechmann, een inleiding van H.A.M. Snelders en annotaties van Jan W. van Spronsen.

A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794. Supplement / by Denis I. Duveen.

Œuvres de Lavoisier, correspondance. Volume VI, 1789-1791 / avant-propos de Henri Kagan ; édition dirigée par Patrice Bret.

Méthode de nomenclature chimique / proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthol[l]et, & de Fourcroy. On y a joint un nouveau système de caractères chimiques, adaptés à cette nomenclature, par MM. Hassenfratz & Adet.

Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes moderns / [Antoine Laurent Lavoisier].

Memoir on heat / read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, 28 June 1783, by Messrs. Lavoisier & De La Place ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Guerlac.

The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry - II. The materia medica; or, An account of the different substances employed in medicine - III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias - with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias - the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations . . . / being an improvement of the new dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / Translated ... by Robert Kerr.

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Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794

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Memoir on heat / read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, 28 June 1783, by Messrs. Lavoisier & De La Place ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Guerlac.

Œuvres de Lavoisier, correspondance. Volume VI, 1789-1791 / avant-propos de Henri Kagan ; édition dirigée par Patrice Bret.

Méthode de nomenclature chimique / proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthol[l]et, & de Fourcroy. On y a joint un nouveau système de caractères chimiques, adaptés à cette nomenclature, par MM. Hassenfratz & Adet.

Elements of chemistry, in a new systematic order, containing all the modern discoveries. ... / Translated ... by Robert Kerr.