I dunno. Perhaps the government didn't need/like smart guys, Phillip. And
dephlogisticated air was a pretty smart-ass thing, don't you think? Or was it
the steamed/watered-down tobacco?
Do you think Lavoisier ever met Rousseau?
bb
--- Phillip White <Phillip_White@ceo.cudenver.edu> wrote:
> Bill B. scrobe:
>
> the play sounds excellent - rather like Stoppard's "Arcadia" - in
> affect.
> >
> > Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, father of the chemical revolution;
>
> why was this man beheaded during the french revolution?
>
> anyone know?
>
> phillip
>
>
>
>
> * * * * * * * *
> * *
>
> The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
> Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
> The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
> buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
> "identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
> reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
> "idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
> repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
> it means.
>
> from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
> Mendelsohn.
>
> phillip white
> doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.html
> scrambling a dissertation
> denver, colorado
> phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
>
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