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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 · 44m

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Becky Stephens @beckitoo.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 1h

Thank you very much!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 12h

Thank you

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16h

Oh goodness, I hope she recovers fully!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 17h

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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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 17h

My 11yo seeing the internal bleeding being pumped out of his uncle’s chest: What is that?

Me: It’s what you you think it is.

Him: WHAT DO I THINK IT IS?

…

After asking what the screen readouts meant.

Nurse: Oh, do you want to be a doctor?

11yo: NO.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you

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Throwing rocks - ideal Earth scientist pastime

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, I was genuinely confused! Thought it might be an acronym I didn’t know 😂

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t understand the question?

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

He said he would go the same route and everything. He’s has ridden it hundreds of times. There was just something on the road this time.

He did say that maybe he would take the hill a little slower. Maybe.

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

He was conscious while awaiting the paramedics, so he knows.

My husband offered to take the bike into the shop and my brother said he wasn’t going to need it for a few months, but he mentioned going riding again 3 times this morning.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 21h

For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt asteroid, my wee little mini #linocut asteroid

#printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #asteroid 🧪🔭

My mini linocut asteroid has a 2” x 2” printed area on a 4”x 4” cream coloured paper. The image shows an irregular silver rock on a black background with circular black outlined craters. The print is marked “1/12 Asteroid Ele Willoughby 2012”

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