Mémoires présentées à l'Académie de Besançon en 1775 [i.e. 1766] sur la meilleure manière d'obtenir le salpêtre, 1775.

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Mémoires présentées à l'Académie de Besançon en 1775 [i.e. 1766] sur la meilleure manière d'obtenir le salpêtre, 1775.

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In 1766 (not 1775 as on spine of case) the Academy of Besançon sponsored a competition on the best method of manufacturing saltpeter. In 1775 French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier urged that the Academy at Paris have a competition on a similar subject. Turgot asked the Besançon Academy to send a dossier of the best essays in the 1766 contest. This vol. is a copy of that dossier which Lavoisier had made for himself. The third item is a copy of letter from Lavoisier to the Besançon Academy, dated Nov. 28, 1775, giving his assessment of the essays.

288 p. ; 42 cm.

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Académie des sciences, belles lettres et arts de Besançon.

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Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 1743-1794

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French chemist and government administrator, considered the founder of modern chemistry. From the description of Géographie minéralogique de la France / [par] Lavoisier et Guettard, 177-? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123487897 From the description of Géographie minéralogique de la France / [par] Lavoisier et Guettard, 177-? (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938887 En 1775, Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) fut nommé régisseur des poudr...