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This is a history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries that scrutinises 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.Klein, Ursula is the author of 'Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science A Historical Ontology', published 2007 under ISBN 9780262113069 and ISBN 0262113066.
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