Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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Buy Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) on FREE SHIPPING on qualified ordersCited by: 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.

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It is also a platform for sharing ongoing research projects that develop digital tools. 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 : Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science by Ursula Klein,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre's Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (MIT Press, ) is an in-depth history of how chemists understood, identified, classified and studied materials objects during the eighteenth century.

The authors argue that by examining the important historical contexts of how chemists dealt with material substances during this period, we can better understand both materials science. A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to theearly nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used bychemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices andunderstanding of the material objects changed.

Ursula Klein is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the co-author of Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology and the author of Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.E.

Spary is lecturer in the history of eighteenth-century medicine at the Wellcome Trust for the History of Author: E. Spary. [Book Review: Historical Ontology] Book Review:For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory. URSULA KLEIN - WOLFGANG LEFVRE, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Author: Muhammad Ali Khalidi.

Book project (Ursula Klein, in collaboration with Wolfgang Lefèvre): Shifting Ontologies: Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science. The book interweaves three historical and philosophical themes: the ontology of materials, modes of classifying materials, and the science of materials from the late seventeenth century until the early nineteenth.

Materials in eighteenth-century science [electronic resource]: a historical ontology / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre. Main author: Klein, Ursula, Corporate Author: Ebook Central Academic Complete., ProQuest (Firm) Other authors: Lefèvre, Wolfgang, Format: eBook Online access.

Materials in eighteenth-century science: a historical ontology. [Ursula Klein; Wolfgang Lefèvre] -- 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.

Materials in eighteenth-century science: a historical ontology. [Ursula Klein; Wolfgang Lefèvre] -- 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.

In their new book Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre draw the study of 18th-century chemistry away from abstract models—“atoms, corpuscles, and Newtonian Forces”—and root it instead in a complex world of materials: balsams, resins, fats, salts, alloys, mineral acids, roots, leaves, bones, hair, and blood.

Throughout the 18th century. Ursula Klein is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the co-author of Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology and the author of Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.E.

Spary is lecturer in the history of eighteenth-century medicine at the Wellcome Trust for the History. Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology by Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre.

By Georgette Taylor. Topics: History of science, History of chemistry, Author: Georgette Taylor. Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (review) Overall, this ambitious, rich collection of essays by a group of colleagues with a strong investment in this research project is an important collection not only for historians of science and culture, but also for literary scholars of any era who are interested in heredity.

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Klein and W. Lefèvre. In Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefe `vre propose an investigation of the history of chemical substances understood as ‘multidimensional objects of inquiry that could be investigated in practical and theoretical contexts and that amalgamated perceptible and imperceptible, useful and philosophical, technological and scientific, social and natural features’.

A material perspective on 18th-century chemistry Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre: Materials in eighteenth-century science: a historical ontology. The MIT Author: Jonathan Simon.

In their recent book Materials in Eighteenth Century Science, Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre argue that eighteenth century chemistry was primarily a science based upon the knowledge of materials. Lefevre W () Materials in eighteenth century science. A historical ontology. MIT Press, Cambridge, One of These Things is Just Like Author: Matthew Paskins.Book Reviews.

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Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology by Ursula Klein, Wolfgang Lefèvre (pp. ).Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian "physics" or "natural philosophy" of the soul.

C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology.