Stamp issued by France commemorating Lavoisier, showing bust of Lavoisier; violet ultramarine inks; no watermark; designer: Achille Ouvré; perforation: comb 14 x 13; printing: recess;face value: 4 F - French franc.
Stamp issued by France commemorating Lavoisier, showing bust of Lavoisier; violet ultramarine inks; no watermark; designer: Achille Ouvré; perforation: comb 14 x 13; printing: recess;face value: 4 F - French franc.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, before July 15, 1995.
Lavoisier was one of the founders of modern chemistry; he refuted the phlogiston theory with his work on combustion and identified and named oxygen; he also demonstrated the indestructibility of matter.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/l 'vw zie / l -VWAH-zee-ay; French: [ ~twan l ~ d lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.