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Ele Willoughby

@minouette.bsky.social

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Artist/marine geophysicist (PhD Physics) Printmaker Find/contact me at: minouette.Etsy.com minouette.blogspot.ca Instagram.com/the.minouette https://cara.app/minouette I post art, science, #sciart and stuff with typos. She/her, Settler in Tkaronto 🇨🇦

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Aug 18

My social media is filled with artists announcing that they are suspending shipments to the US when the de minimis tariff exemptions are removed August 29.

This is devastating for a lot of small businesses. Canadian artists should find artworks still exempt from tariffs (in accordance with CUSMA)

What Canadian artists need to know about US tariffs › CARFAC

The national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists

www.carfac.ca

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 50m

This is the consensus 🥧

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4h

I think she’ll have lots of turkey to deal with but I’m planning on just bringing them a pie.

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks - it’s the minimum required ratio around here, to be honest.

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you. It’s the minimum ratio around here. 😆

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

I get the Mandarin ducks (like Becky’s drawing) and wood ducks confused too and always have to double check.

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you. I’m glad you’re doing much better that you were then.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. Here it’s scheduled to go with harvest time.

The proximity of American Thanksgiving to Christmas always struck me as weird.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

They’ll have to eat more ham! 😆

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

Imagining me later asking, “Would you like some ham on your pumpkin pie? Cause there’s more ham?”

There is definitely enough ham that my SIL and nephews could have joined us. And I don’t even think 3 hungry boys could polish this off with 3 pies.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

I’m making a spiral cut ham, cause last minute turkey isn’t easy and I have managed to get through my life this far without having to cook a turkey. Plus my husband bought far more ham than our family of 3 could possibly eat.

I have made 3 pumpkin pies for 5 people.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5h

I decided to host an impromptu Thanksgiving so my parents get some sense of normality and don’t spend their long weekend simply worrying about my brother.

He was going to host us yesterday to allow for my SIL’s family plans. So she and my nephews are at her family’s.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 9h

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Threeoffour. @beckitoo.bsky.social · 11h

A mandatory duck in pastels I did a few weeks ago. I'm really pleased with my progress in pastels. Practice practice practice.
#mandarinduck #duck #bird #riverbird #birdart #natureart #riverlife #wildlife #pastelmat #pastelart #artist #pastellist #ukartist #pastelpencils #panpastels #drake

A colourful male mandarin duck facing left on a river with it's colours reflecting beneath him.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you very much!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

He became a professor & was inducted in the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1785.
#printmaking #womeninSTEM #histsci #sciart

minouette.etsy.com

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

of 1764. Under her own name, she published a map of eclipse’s extent over Europe as well as its successive phases in 15-minutes intervals as would be visible over Paris.

She & husband adopted his nephew, Joseph Lepaute Dagelet in 1768 whom she trained as a mathematician & astronomer.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

insisted they could never have made the calculations without her.

Lepaute collaborated with Lalande for decades, working on almanacs, ephemerides, comets & she calculated on her own daily positions of Sun, Moon & planets. In 1762 she calculated the exact time & path of the annular solar eclipse

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

In 1757, Lalande decided he improve the predictions of the return of Halley’s Comet. He enlisted Clairaut (who had a new approximate solution to the 3-body problem) & Lepaute. Their prediction was off by mere days, a huge technical feat & 10-fold improvement on Halley’s 2-year window. Lalande

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

interest in #math & #astronomy. She applied her skills to document, observe & calculate the workings of his inventions. The Académie des Sciences sent Lalande to inspect her husband’s new type of pendulum clock. The 3 worked on the theory of clockmaking & Lalande praised her calculations.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

No aristocrat, though born in Luxembourg Palace; she was the 6th of 9 children of the valet of the duchesse de Barry & her sister. A bright child, she was self-taught & devoured all books in the library.

She married royal clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute, in 1764, which allowed her to pursue her

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

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! She produced astronomical almanacs from 1759 to 1783 & was also a member of the Scientific Académie de Béziers.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11h

For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵

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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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

Oh goodness, I hope she recovers fully!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

So much better than yesterday, thank you. The doctors are very pleased with his progress and they are managing his pain.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

He did really well though and I am proud he was willing to go in. My nephews, understandably, are not up for it.

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