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 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
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
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
