Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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Talk at the Hausseminar Mineralogie und Krystallographie
This talk will explore the role that gemstones played in the emergence of mineralogy and crystallography as novel fields of study in the seventeenth century. I will show how new questions and methods for understanding mineral formation were related to broader social and economic changes connecting Europe to the wider world in this period.