Materials in Eighteenth-century Science

Materials in Eighteenth-century Science

A Historical Ontology

by Ursula Klein, Wolfgang Lefèvre

345 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780262113069
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A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to theearly nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used bychemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices andunderstanding of the material objects changed.

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