Materials and expertise in early modern Europe
Subtitle: between market and laboratory
By: edited by Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary.
Contributors: Klein, Ursula, 1952-; Spary, E. C.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226439686
Subjects: Materials -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Technological innovations -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Laboratories -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Expertise -- History -- Congresses; Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers of two workshops which were held at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, in July 2004 and December 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why materials? / Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary; title: The production of materials / Ursula klein; title: Vermilion, mercury, blood, and lizards: matter and meaning in metalworking / Pamela H. Smith; title: Ceramic nature / Hanna Rose Shell; title: The production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz mountains from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization / Christoph Bartels; title: Ink / Adrian Johns; title: Blending technical innovation and learned natural knowledge: the making of ethers / Ursula Klein; title: Materials in the market sphere / Ursula Klein; title: Enlightened milk: reshaping a bodily substance into a chemical object / Barbara Orland; title: The sparkling nectar of spas, or, mineral water as a medically commodifiable material in the province, 1770-1805 / Matthew D. Eddy; title: Liqueurs and the luxury marketplace in eighteenth-century Paris / E. C. Spary; title: State interventions / Ursula Klein; title: Economizing agricultural resources in the German economic enlightenment / Marcus Popplow; title: The crisis of English gunpowder in the eighteenth century / Seymour H. Mauskopf; title: Between craft routines and academic rules: natural dyestuffs and the "art" of dyeing in the eighteenth century / Agustí Nieto-Galan.