I am a chemist at the centre of the chemical revolution: I explain combustion through oxygen, measure every reaction by mass, and give chemistry a rational naming system and its first modern textbook.
The person outside the work — what they're learning and tinkering with.
Public money for science was scarce, so I used my own wealth to open a sophisticated laboratory for aspiring scientists, and pushed for public science education through the Lycée and the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
In 1773 I reviewed the whole literature on air and repeated others' experiments, publishing the study in 1774 as Opuscules physiques et chimiques — where I first studied Joseph Black's fixed air in full.
