Lavoisier: Oxygen, Combustion, and Respiration, from "The History of Medicine" / Robert Thom
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- UMHS.19
- Title
- Lavoisier: Oxygen, Combustion, and Respiration, from "The History of Medicine"
- Artist
- Robert Thom
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1915-1979
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1952
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Michigan (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Michigan (state)
- Dimensions
- 132.08 cm x 106.68 cm (52 in. x 42 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- Greatest contribution of science to Medicine during the eighteenth century came from experiments relating to the processes of respiration, conducted between 1789 and 1792 by the Parisian chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, in his laboratory at the Royal Arsenal. Mme. Lavoisier was his closest collaborator. Together with a young assistant, Sequin, Lavoisier recorded oxygen intake and carbon dioxide exhalation by a man while resting, while working, and while eating, and compared the results with statistics on combustion of carbon. Lavoisier made many scientific, social, economic, financial, and political contributions before French revolutionary radials executed him in 1794.
- Secondary Keywords
- disciplines
- health sciences
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in health and medicine
- people in science-related occupations
- science and related disciplines
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- UMHS.19
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-umhs.19/umhs.19.jpg
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"Lavoisier: Oxygen, Combustion, and Respiration, from "The History of Medicine"; Robert Thom." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-umhs.19/umhs.19.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024.
