Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science

Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science A Historical Ontology - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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Publisher's Synopsis

A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed.

Book information

ISBN: 9780262113069
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 540.9033
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 345
Weight: 726g
Height: 229mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 24mm