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Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences (2023)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: 2
Pages: 407-412
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1086/724876

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724876

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Narratives of supply chains and raw materials are a poor fit for early modern Europeans’ “thrifty” habit of reusing and reworking goods into new forms. This essay stresses the importance of such habits for early modern work using the example of paper, as a medium, instrument, and epistemic resource in various domestic and scientific spheres. Thrifty perspectives challenge not only linear supply narratives but also enduring accounts of the identities of materials themselves.

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Article Viktoria Tkaczyk; Christine von Oertzen (2023) Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 359-365). unapi

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