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In the final decades of the 18th century, two scientists, one English, one French, simultaneously discovered oxygen. Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier were unlikely competitors but their fierce rivalry to solve the 'riddle of air' became a kind of space race of the time.Jackson, Joe is the author of 'World On Fire A Heretic, An Aristocrat, And The Race To Discover Oxygen', published 2005 under ISBN 9780670034345 and ISBN 0670034347.
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