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Materials and expertise in early modern Europe :

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9780226439686

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Materials and expertise in early modern Europe :

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between market and laboratory /

edited by Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary.

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

©2010.

1 online resource (vi, 398 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Why materials? / Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary -- The production of materials / Ursula klein -- Vermilion, mercury, blood, and lizards : matter and meaning in metalworking / Pamela H. Smith -- Ceramic nature / Hanna Rose Shell -- The production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz mountains from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization / Christoph Bartels -- Ink / Adrian Johns -- Blending technical innovation and learned natural knowledge : the making of ethers / Ursula Klein -- Materials in the market sphere / Ursula Klein -- Enlightened milk : reshaping a bodily substance into a chemical object / Barbara Orland -- The sparkling nectar of spas, or, mineral water as a medically commodifiable material in the province, 1770-1805 / Matthew D. Eddy -- Liqueurs and the luxury marketplace in eighteenth-century Paris / E.C. Spary -- State interventions / Ursula Klein -- Economizing agricultural resources in the German economic enlightenment / Marcus Popplow -- The crisis of English gunpowder in the eighteenth century / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Between craft routines and academic rules : natural dyestuffs and the "art" of dyeing in the eighteenth century / Agustí Nieto-Galan.

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It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In this work, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning.

Materials and expertise in early modern Europe.

9780226439686

Expertise-- History, Congresses.

Knowledge, Theory of-- Europe-- History, Congresses.

Laboratories-- Europe-- History, Congresses.

Materials-- Europe-- History, Congresses.

Technological innovations-- Europe-- History, Congresses.

Expertise.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Laboratories.

Materials.

Technological innovations.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Material Science.

Europe.

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JPP

TEC-- 021000

Klein, Ursula,1952-

Spary, E. C., (Emma C.)

20201204225318.0

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