TY - BOOK ID - 101575507 TI - The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry : The Laboratories of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) AU - Beretta, Marco AU - Brenni, Paolo PY - 2022 SN - 9789004511217 9789004408692 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill DB - UniCat KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries KW - History and Art KW - Chemistry KW - Physical sciences KW - History and art KW - History KW - History in art KW - Books of knowledge KW - Cyclopedias KW - Dictionaries KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English KW - Knowledge, Books of KW - Subject dictionaries KW - Reference books KW - Chemical apparatus KW - Private collections KW - Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, KW - Scientific apparatus collections KW - Musée des arts et métiers (France) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101575507 AB - The substantial collection of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's apparatus is not the only surviving collection of eighteenth-century chemical apparatus and instrumentation, but it is without question the most important. The present study provides the first scientific catalogue of Lavoisier's surviving apparatus. This collection of instruments is remarkable not only for the quality of many of them but, above all, for the number of items that have survived (ca. 600 items). Given such a wealth and variety of instruments, this study also offers the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct the cultural and social context of Lavoisier's experimental activities. ER -