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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction: Why Materials? -
Part One The Production of Materials -
2 Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking -
3 Ceramic Nature -
4 The Production of Silver, Copper, and Lead in the Harz Mountains from Late Medieval Times to the Onset of Industrialization -
5 Ink -
6 Blending Technical Innovation and Learned Natural Knowledge: The Making of Ethers -
Part Two Materials in the Market Sphere -
7 Enlightened Milk: Reshaping a Bodily Substance into a Chemical Object -
8 The Sparkling Nectar of Spas; or, Mineral Water as a Medically Commodifiable Material in the Province, 1770–1805 -
9 Liqueurs and the Luxury Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Paris -
Part Three State Interventions -
10 Economizing Agricultural Resources in the German Economic Enlightenment -
11 The Crisis of English Gunpowder in the Eighteenth Century -
12 Between Craft Routines and Academic Rules: Natural Dyestuffs and the “Art” of Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century - Secondary Sources
- Contributors
- Index
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- Source:
- Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction: Why Materials? -
Part One The Production of Materials -
2 Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking -
3 Ceramic Nature -
4 The Production of Silver, Copper, and Lead in the Harz Mountains from Late Medieval Times to the Onset of Industrialization -
5 Ink -
6 Blending Technical Innovation and Learned Natural Knowledge: The Making of Ethers -
Part Two Materials in the Market Sphere -
7 Enlightened Milk: Reshaping a Bodily Substance into a Chemical Object -
8 The Sparkling Nectar of Spas; or, Mineral Water as a Medically Commodifiable Material in the Province, 1770–1805 -
9 Liqueurs and the Luxury Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Paris -
Part Three State Interventions -
10 Economizing Agricultural Resources in the German Economic Enlightenment -
11 The Crisis of English Gunpowder in the Eighteenth Century -
12 Between Craft Routines and Academic Rules: Natural Dyestuffs and the “Art” of Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century - Secondary Sources
- Contributors
- Index
