Dupré, Sven (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: 2
Pages: 393-399
Publication date: 2023
Language: English
Scientific instruments such as telescopes and distillation columns have played a prominent role in the history of science, but the key material of which these instruments were made has received scant attention. Focusing on the glass used to make scientific instruments and on the supply chains on which its production relied—allows us to see that “glass” covers a variety of materials and that the nature of glass depends on the material knowledge and environmental expertise invested in its manufacture. Between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, glassware moved back and forth between a dependence on processing locally sourced materials and reusing household items and a reliance on intraregional supply chains of specialty materials.
...MoreArticle 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).
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