My lino block print portrait for #PrinterSolstice prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. 🧵

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This year’s #PrinterSolstice prompts are math themed, which seems perfect for my #womenInSTEM series. The first prompt, “addition” made me think of the greenhouse effect, excess additional atmospheric CO2 and the resulting excess terrestrial temperatures. It made me think of a scientist who has been on my to do list for years: Eunice Newton Foote. The reason I have not tackled her portrait 🧵

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Day 2 #artAdventCalendar I made several portraits this year including Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as his assistant.

Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy.🧵

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Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant. 🧵1/n

Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy. #womenInSTEM #histsci #printerSolstice #sciart #mastoArt

Working on my next #printerSolstice print for the prompt oxygen- another woman who was there and involved in the chemical revolution and development of the idea that burning might be due to an element that got named oxygen rather than a substance possessed by combustible things called phlogiston.

Chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator Claudine Picardet…

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For #printerSolstice prompt carbon: my #linocut portrait of Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & the Saruhashi Prize for Japanese women🧵

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Working on my next linocut for the #printerSolstice prompt carbon! A geochemist for my ongoing series of #womenInSTEM portraits.

Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) made the first measurements of CO2 in seawater.

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For #printersolstice prompt gold, my #linocut of Sophie Brahe (1556 or 1559-1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant.

Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy. 🧵1/n

#womenInSTEm #histsci #printerSolstice #sciart #MastoArt