Description: Papers of two workshops which were held at the Max-Planck-Institut f'ur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, in July 2004 and December 2006.
Brief description: Ursula Klein is senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the co-author of Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology and the author of Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.
Review Quotes:
"A very valuable addition to the history of matter. A fascinating and thought-provoking range of studies of mundane substances as lures to consumption, commerce, warfare and science."
--Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter