Format:
VI, 398 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
0226439682
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9780226439686
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers of two workshops which were held at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, in July 2004 and December 2006
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Why materials?
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The production of materials
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Vermilion, mercury, blood, and lizards: matter and meaning in metalworking
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Ceramic nature
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The production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz mountains from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization
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Ink
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Blending technical innovation and learned natural knowledge: the making of ethers
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Materials in the market sphere
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Enlightened milk: reshaping a bodily substance into a chemical object
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The sparkling nectar of spas, or, mineral water as a medically commodifiable material in the province, 1770-1805
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Liqueurs and the luxury marketplace in eighteenth-century Paris
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State interventions
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Economizing agricultural resources in the German economic enlightenment
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The crisis of English gunpowder in the eighteenth century
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Between craft routines and academic rules: natural dyestuffs and the "art" of dyeing in the eighteenth century
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
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History
Keywords:
Europa
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Technische Innovation
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Werkstoff
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Geschichte 1500-1700
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Technik
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Innovation
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Klein, Ursula 1952-
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