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Storied Objects, Scientific Objects, and Renaissance Experiment: The Case of Malleable Glass

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Vera Keller
Vera Keller*
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University of Oregon
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Abstract

The career of storied objects can help highlight the agency of absence and historicize the notion of scientific objects more generally. Until the sixteenth century, lost, ancient flexible glass was studied separately from malleable glass. The latter appeared as a claimed chymical product and craft recipe. The bridging of social and epistemic registers merged these accounts. Malleable glass became a prestigious scientific object. Appearing in numerous utopias, it stimulated a participatory public of scientific amateurs. Such storied objects served as vectors for spreading experimental culture, yet declined as new professions emerged. The charisma that made malleable glass a seventeenth-century scientific object led to its rejection by newly professionalized eighteenth-century chemists and its replacement by a less evocative scientific object, “malleability.”

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , Summer 2017 , pp. 594 - 632
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