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• 1.万物简史 第139期:基本物质(11)
• In between these undertakings, he somehow found time to conduct a good deal of solid science. He became the worlds foremost authority on thermodynamic...
• 2.万物简史 第138期:基本物质(10)
• Things might have been worse had it not been for a splendidly improbable character named Count von Rumford, who, despite the grandeur of his title, be...
• 3.万物简史 第137期:基本物质(9)
• In the early 1800s there arose in England a fashion for inhaling nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, after it was discovered that its use was attended by ...
• 4.万物简史 第136期:基本物质(8)
• In 1793, the Reign of Terror, already intense, ratcheted up to a higher gear. In October Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine. The following mo...
• 5.万物简史 第135期:基本物质(7)
• And his fancy equipment did in fact come in very handy. For years, he and Madame Lavoisier occupied themselves with extremely exacting studies requiri...
• 6.万物简史 第138期:基本物质(6)
• As a leading member of the Acadmie Royale des Sciences, he was also required to take an informed and active interest in whatever was topicalhypnotism,...
• 7.万物简史 第133期:基本物质(5)
• Someone of insight was needed to thrust chemistry into the modern age, and it was the French who provided him. His name was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier....
• 8.万物简史 第132期:基本物质(4)
• Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a l...
• 9.万物简史 第131期:基本物质(3)
• Scheele's one notable shortcoming was a curious insistence on tasting a little of everything he worked with, including such notoriously disagreeable s...
• 10.万物简史 第130期:基本物质(2)
• The commercial potential for the stuffwhich soon became known as phosphorus, from Greek and Latin roots meaning light bearingwas not lost on eager bus...