The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia.Do today's technoscientific disciplines--including m
In the early nineteenth century, chemistry emerged in Europe as a truly experimental discipline. What set this process in motion, and how did it evolve? Experimentalization in chemistry was driven b
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was the science of materials. Chemists treated mundane raw materials and chemical substances as multidimensional objects of inquiry that could be investigated in b
Each branch of science has its own ontology, its proper domain of investigation--its objects of inquiry. This fascinating collection of essays traces the development of this domain and the changes in
It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials
