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Papers of two workshops which were held at the Max-Planck-Institut f'ur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, in July 2004 and December 2006.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Why Materials?	p. 1
The Production of Materials
Introduction to Part 1	p. 25
Vermilion, Mercury, Blood, and Lizards: Matter and Meaning in Metalworking	p. 29
Ceramic Nature	p. 50
The Production of Silver, Copper, and Lead in the Harz Mountains from Late Medieval Times to the Onset of Industrialization	p. 71
Ink	p. 101
Blending Technical Innovation and Learned Natural Knowledge: The Making of Ethers	p. 125
Materials in the Market Sphere
Introduction to Part 2	p. 159
Enlightened Milk: Reshaping a Bodily Substance into a Chemical Object	p. 163
The Sparkling Nectar of Spas; or, Mineral Water as a Medically Commodifiable Material in the Province, 1770-1805	p. 198
Liqueurs and the Luxury Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Paris	p. 225
State Interventions
Introduction to Part 3	p. 257
Economizing Agricultural Resources in the German Economic Enlightenment	p. 261
The Crisis of English Gunpowder in the Eighteenth Century	p. 288
Between Craft Routines and Academic Rules: Natural Dyestuffs and the "Art" of Dyeing in the Eighteenth Century	p. 321
Secondary Sources	p. 355
Contributors	p. 389
Index	p. 393
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