"Thoroughly researched scholarly monograph arguing that technoscience began/formed much earlier than currently agreed in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed.In the eighteenth century, chemistry was the science of materials. Cheā¦