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Becoming Visible: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier and the Campaign for the “New Chemistry” (1770s-1790s) (2022)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 69
Issue: 3
Pages: 221-242
Publication date: 2022
Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2022.2091352

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2022.2091352

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Scientific illustration Correspondence and corresponding Travel writing Laboratory notebooks Scientific collaboration Science and gender Women in science Professional qualifications; status; remuneration Chemistry 18th century France Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Marie-Anne Paulze

This paper examines an episode of the history of chemistry, the campaign for the promotion of so-called “new chemistry,” dating to the second half of the 1780s, to investigate the ways in which women could build their own reputation. I focus on the case of Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1758–1836), today known as the wife and scientific associate of the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794). Drawing on a wide set of published and unpublished sources – laboratory notebooks, travel diaries, letters, and drawings – I will delve deeper into their collaboration, showing how Paulze-Lavoisier appropriated the campaign for the new chemistry to appear as a visible actor in the scientific circles of the time. I will then highlight the multiple self-representations she produced while participating in these events.

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