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‎Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science - A Historical Ontology‎

‎The MIT Press , Transformations : Studies in the History of Science and Technology Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2007 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's black and brown printed and illustrated dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 355 pages‎

‎few black and white figures and tables 1st edition, 2007 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of figures, x, Text, 345 pages - 1. Contexts and practices : Commodities and natural objects - Practices of studying materials in XVIIIe century chemistry - Why study classification ? - A world of pure chemical substances : 1787. A new nomenclature - The Tableau de la nomenclature 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 ? - 3. A different world : Plant materials : Diverse orders of plant materials - Ultimate principles of plants : Plant analysis prior to 1752 - 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 - References and index near fine copy, the editor's dust-jacket is near fine, inside is clean, no markings, very light spots on the right side of the volume, inside is not concerned, a rather nice copy‎