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A man being weighed on a huge set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Brown pen and wash drawing. © Wellcome Images
A man being weighed on a huge set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Brown pen and wash drawing.

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