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Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
Aug 7, 2026, 12:47 PM
her entry into the high society scientific bourgeoisie. She attended lectures, demos & became involved as a scientist, translator & host of her own salon. After son died in 1776 & Claude died in 1796 she moved to Paris & married her longtime scientific collaborator & friend Guyton de Morveau, deputy of the Council of five hundred & director & chemistry professor at École Polytechnic. She continued her work & salon in Paris.
Her translation work was part of 🧵2/
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Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
Aug 7, 2026, 12:48 PM
the Bureau de traduction de Dijon which required her to maintain extensive contacts abroad, know latest science & perform experiments & examine minerals to confirm results in translated texts. The other members were all male academics; none as prolific, translated from as many languages nor published in Annales de Chimie, like her. She also was a prominent contributor to Journal de physique.
She published 1st translated volume of chemical essays of Scheele, 1 of the discoverers of oxygen, 🧵3/
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Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
Aug 7, 2026, 12:48 PM
from Swedish & German & brought his work on oxygen to the attention of French scientists. She translated Werner’s 1774 mineralogy text, expanding & annotating to degree it is considered a new edition. She translated Kirwan’s papers & may have contributed to Mme Lavoisier’s 1787 translation of his Essay on Phlogiston. She even invented French scientific terms to capture Werner’s neologisms.
From 1786 to 1787, Guyton de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bethollet & Fourcroy met near daily to 🧵4/5
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Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
Aug 7, 2026, 12:49 PM
modernize chemical nomenclature, creating definitive names with rules like simple substances should have simple names & compounds should have compound names designating their parts. A 19th century painting of them notably includes both Picardet & Mme Lavoisier who deserve to be remembered. 🧵5/5
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