Zur Erinnerung an Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) and the birth of respiratory physiology.

BACKGROUND For more than 1500 years, the status of knowledge concerning the physiology of human respiration has remained almost unchanged. In the 18th century, the French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier conducted breathing experiments on human and animal respiration. METHODS The main bibliographic sources concerning Lavoisier's life and work on respiration have been investigated and anal...

Antoine Lavoisier--Father of Modern Chemistry.

ANTOINE LAVOISIER FAThER OF mOdERN chEmISTRy Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) was born in Paris. One of the great figures in science, he is often called father of modern chemistry. Priestly, in 1774 had heated brick red calx (mercuric oxide), obtaining back mercury, and in addition a combustible gas, with most unusual properties, He called it “dephlogisticated air” (oxygen). It was held th...

Hallmarks in the study of respiratory physiology and the crucial role of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794).

From the early 17th century the advent of physical and chemical sciences developed two important movements toward the explanation of all vital phenomena: the Iatrochemical and Iatromechanical Schools. The important research of their representatives such as Jan Baptist van Helmont, John Mayow, Robert Boyle, Gian Alfonso Borelli, Richard Lower, and Albrecht von Haller, followed by the discovery o...

The Legacy of Lavoisier

Imaging the experiments on respiration and transpiration of Lavoisier and Séguin: two unknown drawings by Madame Lavoisier.

This paper presents two hitherto unknown drawings by Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier dating to the early 1790s that illustrate the experiments on respiration and transpiration of her husband Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his assistant Armand Séguin. These works may be associated with the well-known sepia drawings that were published for the first time by Edouard Grimaux in 1888. Details containe...