The hands of Cornell librarian David Corson literally shook as he sorted through Cornell Library's most recent acquisition of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier materials. Here were the very books handbound in ...

In 1788, Jacques Louis David painted a full-length double portrait of the chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, his wife and scientific collaborator, casting ...

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David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. Met conservator Dorothy Mahon performs ...

Antoine Lavoisier is deservedly considered one of the great chemists in history. We might not know of his experiments if it weren’t for his wife. She became a remarkable, if unconventional, chemist ...

Many science textbooks introduce Antoine Lavoisier as the father of modern chemistry. But is Lavoisier truly the 'father' of chemistry? This is not an absurd question. For example, some math textbooks ...

This constitutes Chapter Fourteen (slightly modified) from my book, Science and Christianity: Close Partners or Mortal Enemies? (2010, 301 pages). Why is it that we always hear, ad nauseum, about ...

This portrait depicts Antoine Lavoisier, the "father of modern chemistry," and his wife. Commissioning a portrait from Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), Europe’s preeminent painter at the time, was a ...

When conservators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York began working on a huge portrait of a pioneering chemist and his wife from the 1780s, they expected to touch up a bit of its varnish.