Materials in Eighteenth-century Science

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Materials in Eighteenth-century Science is written by Ursula Klein and published by MIT Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262113066 (ISBN 10) and 9780262113069 (ISBN 13).

In this history of materials, the authors link chemical science with chemical technology, challenging our current understandings of objects in the history of science and the distinction between scientific and technological objects. They further show that chemits' experimental production and understanding of materials changed over time, first in the decades around 1700 and then around 1830, when mundane materials became clearly distinguished from true chemical substances.