Antoine Lavoisier
- I first discovered Lavoisier as a footnote in someone else's memoir. As I continued researching and learning about Lavoisier's accomplishments as a scientist, his methods of inquiry, and his brutal death, his life began to serve as a portal through which to question the idea of scientific advancement. Are negative results just as helpful to science as positive results? How does history choose our heroes? How much of our own thoughts are a product of our culture and our contemporaries? Why is it so hard for us to accept changes to the way we understand our world, even sometimes in the face of scientific proof?