The atmosphere around our planet
We breathe and live
thanks to the air that surrounds us. It took a long time before our scientists
realized that our atmosphere consists of different gases. It was only during
the enlightenment and the scientific revolution of the 18th century that our
modern western civilization made the groundbreaking discoveries that
contributed to the greatest breakthroughs of our civilization.
We Swedes can feel
proud that our famous chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was involved in the area, as
well as an Englishman, Joseph Priestly. Antoine Lavoisier - one of the greatest
scientists of all time – is however the individual who contributed more than
anyone else to our undersyanding of the air we breath. Lavoisier was the one
who ended the erronius Flogiston theory.
See the program (it is
in English with Swedish subtitles) at:
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