Happy birthday to Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), a progenitor of the study of #chemistry, shown here with his wife Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836). #linocut #sciart #histstm #tarot #MastoArt The couple, working closely together, modernized & quantified chemistry & the scientific method, recognized and named oxygen & hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, helped modernize chemical nomenclature & discovered that mass is conserved in 🧵 1/n
