Download or read book Gay-Lussac written by Maurice P. Crosland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first work to examine critically both the scientific work and the man behind it, and as well as providing the historian of science with a comprehensive account of the life and work of a major nineteenth-century scientist, the book will also be of value to the social and economic historian.