Materials quotidian

Our book focuses on eighteenth-cenmry chemistry as the most authoritative science of materials at the time. We will smdy this early science of materials from a broad, comparative view that provides insight into the types of materials handled and studied in eighteenth-century European chemistry as well as the apothecary trade, metallurgy, and other closely related arts and crafts. What types of materials did eighteenth-century chemists study in their experiments, lectures, and textbooks Where did these materials come from How did chemists transform quotidian materials when they studied them as scientific objects How did chemical substances change in history ... 

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