Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / Ursula Klein and 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 learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of th...
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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.