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Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution
By Bycroft, Michael
- ISBN
- 9780226644608
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Starred Review on October 31, 2025 | Sciences & Technology
This monograph uses gems as a lens to reframe early modern science. Bycroft (history, Univ. of Warwick; coeditor, Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Knowledge and Global Trade, 1450–1800) successfully argues that there was a classification science of gems in early modern Europe, 1500–1800, including the analysis, production, and interactions with gems and related materials. Each chapter focuses on early modern scientific fields...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
