LOST HIS HEAD BUT HIS IDEAS REMAINED. “Although Lavoisier did not survive the Revolution that followed, his new nomenclature did, cementing a shift that deprived active principles of their fundamental ontological status. But a focus on the constituent elements remained insufficient to explain what was, for many, the most interesting part of fermented beverages.”
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