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Berthollet collaborated with Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in his research and in the description of chemical nomenclature, a system of names that serve as the basis of the modern system of naming chemical compounds.

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Note 24: Barbara Whitney Keyser, "Between Science and Craft: The Case of Berthollet and Dyeing," Annals of Science 47 (1990): 213 – 60.

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While he indicated that Pont deserved praise for his work, Berthollet also believed that the most successful of his innovations would require too many changes to established processes.

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Desmarets and Berthollet (Paris, 1781), 6 – 7. back

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The files passed to Claude-Louis Berthollet, who ended all investigations.

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Homassel's dislike of Berthollet may have been a factor in the former's dismissal; Homassel in his book is explicitly hostile toward the new chemical nomenclature advocated by Berthollet and its systems, which he tried to instill at Gobelins. 23 Berthollet instituted some changes to practices, but his greater interest in philosophical chemistry did not yield notable improvements at the manufacture. 24 Chemistry at the Gobelins was not secured for several more decades.

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Instruction sur l'art de la teinture, the 1791 translation of Karl Wilhelm Pörner's Chymische Versuche und Bemerkungen zum Nutzen der Färbekunst (1772) was undertaken with oversight from a committee organized by Claude-Louis Berthollet.

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The oversight of Berthollet and Pierre did not calm controversies in the dyehouse.

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The choice of the chemist Claude-Louis Berthollet and Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, painter to the king and head of the Paris Academy of Painting and Sculpture, as the principals responsible for activities at Gobelins confirmed the direction of the manufacture in the final years of the eighteenth century.

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Furthermore, if this invention were to improve cochineal dyeing in all France, it would have to be accepted into many different ateliers. reference reference Macquer and Pont discussed resistance by artisans to certain kinds of changes, the problem that would lead Berthollet to discourage further work.

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