Book Reading Update -- The Fontana History of Chemistry

Finished Chapter 3 in which the author gives an account of Lavoisier's "chemical revolution" and the 6 important conditions that brought about this new chemistry.  Central to this are the organization and systematization of substances by Lavoisier and his defintion of an element and his demonstration of the gaseous state.  British pneumatic chemists such as Cavendish and Priestley, among others, played a big role in Lavoisier's accomplishments.