Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : The MIT press, c2007.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Transformations
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. Introduction. Pt. 1. Materials in eighteenth-century science: contexts and practices: 1. Commodities and natural objects 2. Practices of studying materials in eighteenth-century chemistry 3. Why study classification? Pt. 2. A world of pure chemical substances: 4. 1787: a new nomenclature 5. The tableau de la nomenclature chimique 6. Classifying according to chemical composition 7. Simple substances and paradigmatic syntheses 8. Operations with pure chemical substances 9. Classification of pure chemical substances before 1787 10. A revolutionary table? Pt. 3. A different world: plant materials: 11. Diverse orders of plant materials 12. Ultimate principles of plants: plant analysis prior to 1750 13. The epistemic elevation of vegetable commodities 14. The failure of Lavoisier's plant chemistry 15. Uncertainties 16. A novel mode of classifying organic substances and an ontological shift around 1830. Conclusion: Multidimensional objects and materiality. References. Name index. Subject index
Knight, David M. 1936-2018. Recensione].