The death of the sensuous chemist : the new chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology / Lissa Roberts.
Abstract:
Examines 'how chemists investigatively deployed their senses in relation to the changing constellation of technologies on which they depended and what sort of knowledge they thereby produced. In other words, what part did the human body play in the changing network of 18th-century chemistry?'
Studies in history and philosophy of science Vol. 26 (1995), p. 503-529