Format:
1 online resource (357 pages)
ISBN:
9780262277266
Series Statement:
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I - Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Contexts and Practices -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 - Commodities and Natural Objects -- 2 - Practices of Studying Materials in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry -- 3 - Why Study Classification? -- Part II - A World of Pure Chemical Substances -- Introduction to Part II -- 4 - 1787: A New Nomenclature -- 5-The Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique -- 6 - Classifying According to Chemical Composition -- 7 - Simple Substances and Paradigmatic Syntheses -- 8 - Operations with Pure Chemical Substances -- 9 - Classification of Pure Chemical Substances before 1787 -- 10 - A Revolutionary Table? -- Part III - A Different World: Plant Materials -- Introduction to Part III -- 11 - Diverse Orders of Plant Materials -- 12 - Ultimate Principles of Plants: Plant Analysis prior to 1750 -- 13 - The Epistemic Elevation of Vegetable Commodities -- 14 - The Failure of Lavoisier's Plant Chemistry -- 15 - Uncertainties -- 16 - A Novel Mode of Classifying Organic Substances and an Ontological Shift around 1830 -- Conclusion: Multidimensional Objects and Materiality -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262113069
Additional Edition:
Print version Klein, Ursula Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science : A Historical Ontology Cambridge : MIT Press,c2007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Klein, Ursula, 1952 - Materials in eighteenth-century science Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007 ISBN 0262113066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262113069
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Chemie
;
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
;
Geschichte 1700-1830
;
Chemische Nomenklatur
;
Geschichte 1700-1830
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Author information:
Lefèvre, Wolfgang 1941-
