Joly Bernard
Osiris. 2014;29:117-31. doi: 10.1086/678100.
Etienne-François Geoffroy is certainly the most representative chemist of the Paris Académie Royale des Sciences in the early eighteenth century. Interested in Newtonian ideas, he did not reject Cartesian mechanism. He is the inventor of the "Table des rapports entre les substances chimiques," which remained in use throughout the eighteenth century, but he drew from the alchemical tradition. He readily theorized about the composition of metals or the laws of chemical affinities, but he practiced a chemistry that was rooted in laboratory work and the search for substances useful to craftsmen.
艾蒂安 - 弗朗索瓦·若弗鲁瓦无疑是18世纪初巴黎皇家科学院最具代表性的化学家。他对牛顿的观点感兴趣，但并不排斥笛卡尔的机械论。他是“化学物质关系表”的发明者，该表在整个18世纪都在使用，但他借鉴了炼金术传统。他乐于对金属的成分或化学亲和力定律进行理论化探讨，但他所从事的化学研究扎根于实验室工作以及对工匠有用物质的探索。
