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ISBN: 9780226610252 Year: 2019 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) University of Chicago Press
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ISBN: 9780226610399 022661039X Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
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If the 20th century saw the rise of 'Big Science,' then the 17th and 18th centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. 'Thrifty Science' explores this distinctive culture of experiment and demonstrates how the values of the household helped to shape an array of experimental inquiries, ranging from esoteric investigations of glowworms and sour beer to famous experiments such as Benjamin Franklin's use of a kite to show lightning was electrical and Isaac Newton's investigations of colour using prisms. Tracing the diverse ways that men and women put their material possessions into the service of experiment, Werrett offers a history of practices of recycling and repurposing that are often assumed to be more recent in origin. This thriving domestic culture of inquiry was eclipsed by new forms of experimental culture in the nineteenth century, however, culminating in the resource-hungry science of the twentieth. Could thrifty science be making a comeback today, as scientists grapple with the need to make their research more environmentally sustainable?
Science --- Scientific apparatus and instruments --- Experiments --- History --- Economic aspects
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ISBN: 9004325565 9004325492 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill,
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Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 offers a new view of the period during which Europe took on its modern character and globally dominant position. By exploring the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, it places chemists and chemistry at the center of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. This includes the interactive intensification of material and knowledge production; the growth and management of consumption; environmental changes, regulation of materials, markets, landscapes and societies; and practices embodied in political economy. Rather than emphasize revolutionary breaks and the primacy of innovation-driven change, the volume highlights the continuities and accumulation of incremental changes that framed historical development. Contributors are: Robert G.W. Anderson, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, John R.R. Christie, Joppe van Driel, Frank A.J.L. James, Christine Lehman, Lissa L. Roberts, Thomas le Roux, Elena Serrano, Anna Simmons, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Sacha Tomic, Andreas Weber, Simon Werrett.
Chemical engineering --- Chemistry, Technical --- Chemistry --- History --- Physical sciences --- Chemical technology --- Industrial chemistry --- Technical chemistry --- Technology --- Chemistry, Industrial --- Engineering, Chemical --- Engineering --- Metallurgy --- History of science
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ISBN: 9780226893778 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press
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