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Seventy two of France's notable scientists and engineers are remembered today on the Eiffel Tower. You can find the names engraved on the four sides of the tower near its four arches toward the ground. This list contains only men who contributed to science and invention between the French Revolution (1789) and the construction of the Eiffel Tower (1887). Here are screen shots from "La Tour Eiffel" (the site is linked below), where you can read whose name is engraved, their profession, and their location on the Eiffel Tower.
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Left: Anna Atkins. Middle left: Alaria esculenta. Middle right: Cystoceira granulata. Right: Ferns, specimen of genotype.
Check out Anna Atkins's cyanotypes! Anna is often credited as the first female photographer, although this is not definitively proven. A family friend of hers, John Herschel, invented the cyanotype method of photography in 1842. Anna then published three volumes of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions between 1843 and 1853.
One copy of this book is at the Natural History Museum in London. You can view the original book and flip through its pages on their website.
It's difficult to say for certain that Anna is the first female photographer. However, her publication has left a lasting impression on botany as a scientific field, and her use of both art and science uniquely captures the beauty of botany.
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Title: A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
Author: Matt Simon
Publication Information: Washington, DC: Island Press. 2022
Description: It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming. In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis, one even more disturbing than plastic bottles washing up on shores and grocery bags dumped in landfills. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous – its toughness – means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or be absorbed by crops or penetrate a fish's muscle tissue before it becomes dinner. Unlike other pollutants that are single elements or simple chemical compounds, microplastics represent a cocktail of toxicity: plastics contain at least 10,000 different chemicals. Those chemicals are linked to diseases from diabetes to hormone disruption to cancers. A Poison Like No Other is the first book to fully explore this new dimension of the plastic crisis, following the intrepid scientists who travel to the ends of the earth and the bottom of the ocean to understand the consequences of our dependence on plastic. As Simon learns from these researchers, there is no easy fix. But we will never curb our plastic addiction until we begin to recognize the invisible particles all around us.
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