Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory

by Ursula Klein

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe , the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany intersected with mining, metallurgy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226439682
• ISBN13: 9780226439686
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"