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matter and value in the Scientific Revolution
1 online resource (vi, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)