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Chapter 16.3.5

  1. V. Chemistry
    Boyle
    • a.      17th and 18th century
    • b.      Robert Boyleà Boyle’s law: volume of gas varies with pressure exerted on it
    •                                                               i.      Rejected medieval belief that all matter made of same componentsà view that matter composed of atoms
  2. V. Chemistry
    Lavoisier
    • a.      Antoine Lavoisier
    •                                                               i.      Invented system of naming chemical elements
    •                                                             ii.      In helping show that water is a compound, he demonstrated the fundamental rules of chemical combination and is the founder of modern chemistry
  3. V. Chemistry
    Wife of Lavoisier
    • 1.      Wife, Marie-Anne, was husband’s scientific collaborator and learned English to translate British chemists for husband and engraved illustration of scientific experiments
    • a.      She is a reminder that women were involved in Revolution
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Chapter 16.3.5
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Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science
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