Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lavoisier conducting air experiment

Lavoisier conducting air experiment


I am nominating this picture as sample of scientific partnership between husband and wife, and also because the picture shows an experiment that Lavoisier conducted while he studied the human respiration and oxygen in 1778;

An assistant takes the pulse of the subject while Lavoisier gives directions to his wife on her drawings, another assitant collects the gas which has passed through water. Probably the iron ball in the middle and the inverted flask are a device intended to measure the oxygen pressure.

In 1771, Lavoisier married 13-year-old Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, the daughter of a co-owner of the Ferme Generale. With time, she proved to be a scientific colleague to her husband. She translated documents from English for him, including Richard Kirwan's "Essay on Phlogiston" and Joseph Priestley's research, she created many sketches and carved engravings of the laboratory equipment used by Lavoisier and his colleagues.

This picture appears in Antoine Lavoisier article. The artwork has more than 100 years old and is in public domain.


 * Update: A second version of the same subject is placed below.--HappyApple 03:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Nominate and support. - HappyApple 23:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice choice of subject and a good introduction, but the pic doesn't meet the criterion of being large enough to allow quality reproductions I'm afraid. Here are some examples of the PD reproductions of old prints and woodcuts we have promoted this month: [[Image:Amphitheatrum_sapientiae_aeternae_-_Alchemist's_Laboratory.jpg|40px]][[Image:Warship diagram orig.jpg|40px]][[Image:Haeckel Trochilidae.jpg|28px]] ~ Veledan • Talk 23:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I tried for a long time to find a large verson of exactly this image and never succeded. It will never pass at the current size.--Deglr6328 00:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose nice subject, but size matters here. :(--K.C. Tang 02:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose too small, unfortunately. Mikeo 09:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

~ Veledan • Talk 16:55, 23 April 2006 (UTC)