Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
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Happy birthday to & Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788)! My celebrates her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & J茅r么me Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley鈥檚 Comet, solving the notorious 3-body by hand (including the gravitational pull of Jupiter & Saturn on orbit). They worked in parallel, calculating for 6 months straight, barely stopping to eat!馃У

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
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