Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226644608ISBN-10:022664460XUPC:9780226644608Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Chemistry, Earth SciencesBook Topic:GeologySize:9.29 x 6.13 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.4617Product ID:SC93G6AHZ8
Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution
The first book-length history of gems in early modern science offers a thought-provoking new take on the Scientific Revolution. In Gems and the New Science, Michael Bycroft argues that gems were connected to major developments in the "new science" between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. As he explains, precious and semiprecious stones were at the center of dramatic shifts in natural...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226644608ISBN-10:022664460XUPC:9780226644608Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Chemistry, Earth SciencesBook Topic:GeologySize:9.29 x 6.13 x 0.99 inchesWeight:1.4617Product ID:SC93G6AHZ8
Michael Bycroft is associate professor in the history of science and technology at the University of Warwick. He is the coeditor of Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Knowledge, and Global Trade, 1450-1800.
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