Papers of two workshops which were held at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, in July 2004 and December 2006.
Why materials? / Ursula Klein and E.C. Spary
The production of materials / Ursula klein
Vermilion, mercury, blood, and lizards: matter and meaning in metalworking / Pamela H. Smith
Ceramic nature / Hanna Rose Shell
The production of silver, copper, and lead in the Harz mountains from late medieval times to the onset of industrialization / Christoph Bartels
Ink / Adrian Johns
Blending technical innovation and learned natural knowledge: the making of ethers / Ursula Klein
Materials in the market sphere / Ursula Klein
Enlightened milk: reshaping a bodily substance into a chemical object / Barbara Orland
The sparkling nectar of spas, or, mineral water as a medically commodifiable material in the province, 1770-1805 / Matthew D. Eddy
Liqueurs and the luxury marketplace in eighteenth-century Paris / E. C. Spary
State interventions / Ursula Klein
Economizing agricultural resources in the German economic enlightenment / Marcus Popplow
The crisis of English gunpowder in the eighteenth century / Seymour H. Mauskopf
Between craft routines and academic rules: natural dyestuffs and the "art" of dyeing in the eighteenth century / Agustí Nieto-Galan.
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Materials and expertise in early modern Europe : between market and laboratory. ISBN 9780226439686. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
