Languages are true analytical methods; algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method.
— Antoine Lavoisier Early Modern

Father of modern chemistry

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From 'Elements of Chemistry'

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1789

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