Antoine-François de Fourcroy helped reform chemical nomenclature in the 1787 Méthode de nomenclature chimique. His explanation of the nomenclature table made the relation between the names of simple substances and their compounds explicit. This treated a chemical name as part of a systematic description of composition.[ref]
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Portrait of Antoine-François de Fourcroy
. Wellcome Library, London / Wellcome Collection; plate published in A. Corlieu, Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Paris (1896). CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.

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