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The Invention of Air.(Brief article)(Book review)
The author of "Everything Bad Is Good for You" provides an entertaining account of the eighteenth-century scientist and radical Joseph Priestley's monumental discovery that plants restore "something fundamental"--what we now know as oxygen--to the air. Johnson also offers a clear-sighted and intelligent exploration of the conditions that are propitious to scientific innovation, such as the availability of coffee and the unfettered ...
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