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Mme d'Arconville échappe à tout classement : femme de lettres - auteure d'essais, de romans, de textes autobiographiques-, elle est aussi une chimiste dont les travaux furent reconnus de son vivant et les résultats corroborés jusqu'à Pasteur. La chimie lui servit de modèle pour construire une interprétation globale de la nature qui, au nom de l'inconstance fondamentale des êtres, considère toute chose à partir de son potentiel de transformation. Cet ouvrage invite à découvrir le parcours exceptionnel de Mme d'Arconville. Six articles rédigés par les meilleurs spécialistes accompagnent l'édition de la préface de son "Essai sur la putréfaction", texte phare de son activité scientifique, et celle de deux oeuvres inédites, qui comptent parmi les plus beaux récits autobiographiques féminins du XVIIIe siècle : "Histoire de mon enfance", où s'esquisse le projet de faire du premier âge de la vie l'objet d'une science de l'homme, et "Sur moi", où elle retrace de manière précise et passionnante les épisodes les plus douloureux de la Révolution. L'ouvrage montre ainsi la cohérence de sa démarche : à la thèse d'une nature en perpétuelle fermentation fait écho une pensée morale qui se refuse à enfermer les individus dans des identités fixes. -- 4e de couverture.

Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte --- Women authors, French. --- Women chemists --- Chemistry --- Ethics --- Enlightenment --- Ecrivaines françaises --- Femmes chimistes --- Chimie --- Morale --- Siècle des Lumières --- History --- Histoire --- Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus, --- France --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie Geneviève Charlotte, --- Ecrivaines françaises --- Siècle des Lumières --- Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus, --- Mouvement des Lumières. --- Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie Geneviève Charlotte

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This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's first publication of the Periodic Table of Elements. This book offers an original viewpoint on the history of the Periodic Table: a collective volume with short illustrated papers on women and their contribution to the building and the understanding of the Periodic Table and of the elements themselves. Few existing texts deal with women's contributions to the Periodic Table. A book on women's work will help make historical women chemists more visible, as well as shed light on the multifaceted character of the work on the chemical elements and their periodic relationships. Stories of female input, the editors believe, will contribute to the understanding of the nature of science, of collaboration as opposed to the traditional depiction of the lone genius. While the discovery of elements will be a natural part of this collective work, the editors aim to go beyond discovery histories. Stories of women contributors to the chemistry of the elements will also include understanding the concept of element, identifying properties, developing analytical methods, mapping the radioactive series, finding applications of elements, and the participation of women as audiences when new elements were presented at lectures. As for the selection of women, the chapters include pre-periodic table contributions as well as recent discoveries, unknown stories as well as more famous ones. The main emphasis will be on work conducted in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Furthermore, the book includes elements from different groups in the periodic table, so as to represent a variety of chemical contexts.

Women chemists --- Periodic table of the elements --- Chemistry --- History --- Periodic table of the elements. --- Femmes chimistes. --- Classification périodique des éléments. --- Chimie --- History. --- Histoire. --- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, --- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil --- Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette, --- Marcet, --- Lermontova, Julia V., --- Cleve-Euler, Astrid, --- Richards, Ellen H. --- Arnal Yarza, Jenara Vicenta, --- Immerwahr, Clara, --- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, --- Noddack, Ida, --- Cremer, E. --- Lonsdale, Kathleen, --- Cauchois, Y. --- Curie, Marie, --- Horovitz, Stefanie, --- Brooks, Harriet, --- Todd, Margaret Georgina, --- Gleditsch, Ellen, --- Burr, May Sybil (Leslie). --- Meitner, Lise, --- Róna, Elizabeth, --- Perey, Marguerite, --- Bernert, Traude. --- Karlik, Berta. --- Joliot-Curie, Irène, --- Karle, Isabella, --- Wu, C. S. --- Kuki-Mayeda, Toshiko K., --- Bowen, Barbara, --- Almond, Mary, --- King, Reatha Clark, --- Freund, Ida, --- Hamilton, Alice, --- Woker, Gertrud, --- Lavoisier, Marie-Anne de --- Marcet, Jane Haldimand --- Cleve, Astrid, --- Richards, Ellen Henrietta, --- Immerwahr, Clara --- Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne --- Noddack, Ida Eva,‏ --- Cremer, Erika, --- Lonsdale, Kathleen --- Cauchois, Yvette --- Curie, Marie --- Joliot-Curie, Irène --- Brooks, Harriet --- Todd, Margaret Georgina,‏ --- Gleditsch, Ellen --- May Sybil, Leslie, --- Meitner, Lise --- Róna, Elizabeth --- Perey, Marguerite --- Bernert, Traude, --- Karlik, Berta, --- Wu, Chien-shiung --- Hamilton, Alice --- Cleve-Euler, Astrid --- Richards, Ellen Henrietta --- Woker, Gertrud. --- Women chemists - Biography --- Chemistry - History --- Classification périodique des éléments. --- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil --- Joliot-Curie, Irène --- Róna, Elizabeth