Bibliograph

Materials in eighteenth-century science, a historical ontology, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre

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Materials in eighteenth-century science, a historical ontology, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-325) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Materials in eighteenth-century science

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

76828871

Responsibility statement

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre

Series statement

Transformations

Sub title

a historical ontology

Table Of Contents

Materials in eighteenth-century science: contexts and practices -- Commodities and natural objects -- Practices of studying materials in eighteenth-century chemistry -- Why study classification? -- A world of pure chemical substances -- 1787: a new nomenclature -- The Tableau de la nonmenclature chimique -- Classifying according to chemical composition -- Simple substances and paradigmatic syntheses -- Operations with pure chemical substances -- Classification of pure chemical substances before 1787 -- A revolutionary table? -- A different world: plant materials -- Diverse orders of plant materials -- Ultimate principles of plants: plant analysis prior to 1750 -- The epistemic elevation of vegetable commodities -- The failure of Lavoisier's plant chemistry -- Uncertainties -- A novel mode of classifying organic substances and an ontological shift around 1830 -- Conclusion: Multidimensional objects and materiality

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