Lavoisier Diorama
notes: label: Description
content: This diorama of Antoine Lavoisier in his laboratory at the Arsenal, conducting experiments on respiration, is based on a drawing by his wife, Marie-Anne Lavoisier. Armand Seguin, the man sitting at the left and breathing oxygen, was Lavoisier’s assistant and collaborator.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. Ashworth Underwood, “Lavoisier and the History of Respiration,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 37 (1943): 247-262.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.319244
label: catalog number
content: 319244
label: accession number
content: 236082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diorama
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: diorama: 25 in x 32 in x 28 in; 63.5 cm x 81.28 cm x 71.12 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 3/4 in x 36 1/4 in x 26 3/8 in; 65.405 cm x 92.075 cm x 66.9925 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 3/4 in x 35 13/16 in x 26 5/16 in; 65.405 cm x 90.96375 cm x 66.83375 cm