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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gems and the new science
    sub title: matter and value in the Scientific Revolution
  name:
    name part: Bycroft, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color.
  table of contents: Introduction ; Gems ; Matter ; Value ; The scientific revolution ; Matter and value in the scientific revolution ; Seven new sciences ; Alternative histories of gem science -- Gem classification and Renaissance natural history ; From luxuries to virtues ; Trade and the orient ; Tools and hardness ; Oriental hardness ; Classification without systematics -- Gem appraisal and technical literature in the age of Louis XIV ; Manuals ; Inventories ; Travel narratives ; Maps ; Letters ; The mutual influence of the crafts -- Gem collecting and experimental philosophy ; A virtual collection ; The jewel house ; Strange proofs ; Trials of goodness -- Gems and the French origins of experimental physics ; Material-driven experimentation ; Assaying gems ; Physics as gem collecting ; Electricity as a science of materials ; The varieties of matter -- Precision and preciousness in Enlightenment mineralogy ; From lapidaries to mineralogies ; Color and nuance ; Refraction and structure ; Density and variety ; Crystals and correlation ; Gems and the quantifying spirit -- Gems, the crafts, and chemical composition ; Metals and porcelain ; Diamond and porcelain ; Drugs and glass ; Gems and metals ; Compositionism about what? -- The end of gems and the origins of gemology ; Books ; Collections ; Tests ; Expertise ; Value-free evaluation -- Conclusion ; A brief history of garnet ; From materialism to transmaterialism ; From production to evaluation ; Gems beyond the scientific revolution.
  table of contents: Appendix 1: Diamonds used in the argument of Boyle’s gems -- Appendix 2: Gem specimens from the regent's survey, 1714-1719 -- Appendix 3: Gems in Dufay’s experiments -- Appendix 4: Comparative table of enlightenment gem taxonomies -- Appendix 5: Refraction data from Buffon and Rochon -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Michael Bycroft.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Gemology
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gems
    topic: Research
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gems
    topic: Classification
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Gemmologie
    topic: Histoire
  classification: QE392 .B95 2026
  classification: 553.809
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2025030741
    identifier: (OCoLC)1502687713
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
  identifier: 9780226825984 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0226825981 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780226644608
  identifier: 022664460X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260324
    record change date: 20260324105327.3
    record identifier: in00005785283
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng