Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology

by Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre

In the eighteenth century, chemistry was the science of materials. Chemists treated mundane raw materials and chemical substances as multidimensional objects of inquiry that could be investigated in both practical and theoretical contexts--as useful commodities, perceptible objects of nature, and entities with hidden and imperceptible features. In this history of materials, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre link chemical science with chemical technology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262113066
• ISBN13: 9780262113069
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher