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Michael Bycroft
(2026)
Gems and the New Science
Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution
Michael Bycroft
(2026)
Sprog: Engelsk
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- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (Marts 2026)
- ISBN: 9780226825984
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- Hardback: 336 sider
- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (Marts 2026)
- ISBN: 9780226644608
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 semi-precious stones were at the center of dramatic shifts in natural knowledge in early modern Europe. They were used to investigate luminescence, electricity, combustion, chemical composition, and more. They were collected by naturalists, measured by mathematicians, and rubbed, burned, and dissolved by experimental philosophers. This led to the demise of the traditional way of classifying gems--which grouped them by transparency, color, and locality--and a turn to density, refraction, chemistry, and crystallography as more reliable guides for sorting these substances.
The science of gems shows that material evaluation was as important as material production in the history of science. It also shows the value of seeing science as the product of the interaction between different material worlds. The book begins by bringing these insights to bear on five themes of the Scientific Revolution. Each of the subsequent chapters deals with a major episode in early modern science, from the expansion of natural history in the sixteenth century to the emergence of applied science early in the nineteenth century. This important work is not only the first book-length history of the science of gems but also a fresh interpretation of the Scientific Revolution and an argument for a new form of materialism about science.
1. Gem Classification and Renaissance Natural History From Luxuries to Virtues Trade and the Orient Tools and Hardness Oriental Hardness Classification Without Systematics
2. Gems and Technical Writing in the Age of Louis XIV Manuals Inventories Travel Narratives Maps Letters The Mutual Influence of the Crafts
3. Gem Collecting and Experimental Philosophy A Virtual Collection The Jewel House Strange Proofs Trials of Goodness
4. 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
5. 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
6. Gems, the Crafts, and Chemical Composition Metals and Porcelain Diamond and Porcelain Drugs and Glass Gems and Metals Compositionism About What?
7. 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 Acknowledgments 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
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