Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: Why Materials? 1
5. PART 1. The Production of Materials
6. Introduction to Part 1 25
7. 2. Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking 29
8. 3. Ceramic Nature 50
9. 4. The Production of Silver, Copper, and Lead in the Harz Mountains from Late Medieval Times to the Onset of Industrialization 71
10. 5. Ink 101
11. 6. Blending Technical Innovation and Learned Natural Knowledge: The Making of Ethers 125
12. PART 2. Materials in the Market Sphere
13. Introduction to Part 2 159
14. 7. Enlightened Milk: Reshaping a Bodily Substance into a Chemical Object 163
15. 8. The Sparkling Nectar of Spas; or, Mineral Water as a Medically Commodifi able Material in the Province, 1770–1805 198
16. 9. Liqueurs and the Luxury Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Paris 225
17. Part 3. State Interventions
18. Introduction to Part 3 257
19. 10. Economizing Agricultural Resources in the German Economic Enlightenment 261
20. 11. The Crisis of English Gunpowder in the Eighteenth Century 288
21. 12. Between Craft Routines and Academic Rules: Natural Dyestuffs and the “Art” of Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century 321
22. Secondary Sources 355
23. Contributors 389
24. Index 393