# A World on Fire

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-jackson/a-world-on-fire

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- Authors: [Joe Jackson](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-jackson)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2007-02-27

## Description

Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen...

## Editions

### A World on Fire

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-883-2
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2007-02-27
- Language: en_US