#lavoisier

[plantemane]

Various doodles of Frev/Hunterverse stuff including my OC Pierre (and his BF Benoît)

And also here’s a mini comic for shits and giggles featuring Pierre and Danton

The voices in Pierre’s head won.

[citoyenneserknoire]

Two Worlds.

[danidollydoll]

Just some silly doodles plus requests from comments :3

Hopefully I can finish some bigger art this week, but life´s in the way.... :(

Anyways Happy Halloween!

[lacus-umbrarum]

Kinda like Frankenstein or something

[resvinabright111]

Draw Antoine Lavoisier? He's one of people at french revolution history 🤔 (I'm sure you saw him in your chemistry textbook or science encyclopedia)

Yes

In fact this is my first time drawing him LOL

[maximette-1789]

Condamnation à mort d'Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 5 mai 1794, page 5 / Death Sentence of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, May 5, 1794, page 5

Page Five:

... Extraordinary then performed who could not claim it and that they further ordered expenditures against the principles enshrined and disposed by these means of what belonged to the government.

8° Finally, to have liquidated the debts of the accounts that concerned their administration with the money that came from the national administration.

[That is] Why the public accuser requests that he be given notice of this accusation, that it be said and ordered that at his request and by the bailiff bearing the order to take part[.] The defendants will be taken in person and rusted on the registers of the Conciergerie where they are held to remain as if they were in a house of justice and that the said order will be notified to the office of the public prosecutor on the date sixteen floréal, the year two of the French Republic, one and indivisible.

The order of arrest dated of today, rendered by the court against the aforementioned and the minutes of the handover of their persons to the Conciergerie’s justice center ; The statement of the jury of judgment stating that it is constant that there has existed a plot against the French people, tending to favor by all possible means the successes of the enemies of France, notably by exercising any kind of exaction and corruption on the French people, by smoking water and ingredients harmful to health…

Author's notes:

This work is for @citoyenneserknoire

So sorry to be so late...

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Sources:

Dividers: @saradika-graphics

[sacredheartorcockade]

Quiz II - The Answer Is Finally Revealed

Are you ready to find out the answer of my last quiz?

Who wrote: "The Newtonians count seven; nonetheless, from the mixture of only three, painters create every shade. Could art then be simpler than nature? […] According to my experiments, it is certain that the primary colors are limited to yellow, red, and blue, because one always succeeds in extracting from the light that decomposes at the edges of bodies only these three distinct colors."

Ready? 🥁*Drum roll*🥁

No, it is not answer A, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. She was a brilliant painter, yes—but she did not write this. And honestly, can anyone imagine her running scientific experiments between two portrait sittings?

Now we are left with three serious contenders: B) Antoine Lavoisier? C) Jean-Paul Marat? D) Jacques-Louis David?

Things get interesting here. Both Lavoisier and Marat were scientists, and—just to complicate matters—they both explored theories of color. And then we have Jacques-Louis David, a renowned painter of the revolutionary era, famous not only for his paintings but also for his vision of art.

The answer is... 🥁Drum rolls🥁

Answer C. Jean-Paul Marat.

Jean-Paul Marat was far from the “ordinary” revolutionary of his time—the typical lawyer raised in a quiet bourgeois family. He wasn’t even French. Before becoming the thunderous revolutionary Ami du peuple, Marat was first and foremost a scientist. He trained as a physician, but medicine alone didn’t satisfy him. Soon, he turned to physics and even built his own laboratory. There, he carried out a series of experiments, including research on color theory.

Of course he did—how could he avoid such a subject? Color is essential to anyone interested in physics. That is why Antoine Lavoisier, an eminent scientist of his time (unlike Marat in the eyes of the scientific elites), also investigated the nature of color.

In his work “Notions élémentaires d’optique,” Marat described his experiments on color among many others. In fact, he openly challenged Newton’s theory of color and criticized his methods. Yet Newton was widely endorsed by the Royal Academy of Sciences and celebrated within French intellectual circles—thanks in no small part to Voltaire’s promotion of his work.

Abroad, however, criticism of Newton existed. The Swiss polymath Leonhard Euler, for example, argued against him. But in France, Newtonian devotion reigned. The abbé Pierre Bertholon even wrote a biting article attacking Marat’s audacity:

“Monsieur Marat uses faulty prisms and treats his flawed observations as proof against Newton.”

Yes—Jean-Paul Marat managed to ignite controversy right up to the very end.

Bertholon's article against Marat: Letter published in Charles Vellay "Marat et l'abbé Bertholon", RHRF, 1912/3, p 295.

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[lazaude]

The argument that Lavoisier was guillotined because he was a scientist is so hilarious, it amazes me how people still fall for it so easily.

Like, if it was really the case, why and how did all the other men of science manage to keep their head then? Magic?