Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science A Historical Ontology |
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| Author:
| Klein, Ursula
Lefèvre, Wolfgang |
| Series title: | Transformations : Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
| ISBN: | 978-0-262-11306-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.