Prof. Dr. Ursula Klein

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Selected publications

Books

Klein, Ursula; Lefèvre, Wolfgang. Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, 2007.
Klein, Ursula. Experiments, models, paper tools : cultures of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2003.
Klein, Ursula. Verbindung und Affinität: Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. Basel/Boston/Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1994.

Edited Books

Klein, Ursula (Editor/s). Tools and modes of representation in the laboratory sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.

Articles and Chapters

Klein, Ursula. "Die technowissenschaftlichen Laboratorien der Frühen Neuzeit. " NTM 16 (1 2008)
Klein, Ursula. "'Styles of experimentation and alchemical matter theory in the scientific revolution'. Essay r. of: Newman, William R.: Atoms and alchemy : chymistry and the experimental origins of the scientific revolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2006. " Metascience 16 (2 2007)
Klein, Ursula. "Apothecary shops, laboratories and chemical manufacture in eighteenth-century Germany." In: The mindful hand : inquiry and invention from the late Renaissance to early industrialisation, eds.: Roberts, Lissa; Schaffer, Simon; Dear, Peter. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Edita [u.a.], 2007.
Klein, Ursula. "Apothecary-chemists in eighteenth-century Germany." In: New narratives in eighteenth-century chemistry, eds.: Principe, Lawrence M.. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.
Klein, Ursula. "Technoscience avant la lettre. " Perspectives on Science 13 (2 2005)
Klein, Ursula. "Visualität, Ikonizität, Manipulierbarkeit: chemische Formeln als 'Paper Tools'." In: Schrift : Kulturtechnik zwischen Auge, Hand und Maschine, eds.: Grube, Gernot, ; Kogge, Werner; Krämer, Sybille. Paderborn: Fink, 2005.
Klein, Ursula. "Contexts and limits of Lavoisier’s analytical plant chemistry: plant materials and their classification. " Ambix 52 (2 2005)
Klein, Ursula. "Experiments at the intersection of experimental history, technological inquiry and conceptually driven analysis: a case study from early nineteenth-century France. " Perspectives on Science 13 (1 2005)
Klein, Ursula. "Shifting ontologies, changing classifications: plant materials from 1700 to 1830. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 36A (2 2005)
Klein, Ursula. "Introduction: Technoscientific productivity, part 1-2. " Perspectives on Science 13 (2-3 2005)
Klein, Ursula. "Experimentelle Wissenschaften und Werkstättentradition." In: Homo Sapiens und Homo Faber : epistemische und technische Rationalität in Antike und Gegenwart, eds.: Wolters, Gereon; Carrier, Martin. Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2005.
Klein, Ursula. "'Working and knowing in the history of science, technology and medicine'. Essay review of: Pickstone, John V.: Ways of knowing : a new history of science, technology and medicine. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press 2000. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35A (1 2004)
Klein, Ursula. "Not a pure science: chemistry in the 18th and 19th centuries. " Science 306 (5698 2004)
Klein, Ursula . "Styles of experimentation." In: Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences, eds.: Galavotti, Maria Carla. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer, 2003.
Klein, Ursula. "Experimental history and Herman Boerhaave’s chemistry of plants. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 34C (4 2003)
Klein, Ursula . "The creative power of paper tools in nineteenth-century chemistry." In: Tools and modes of representation in the laboratory sciences, eds.: Klein, Ursula. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.
Klein, Ursula. "Berzelian formulas as paper tools in early nineteenth-century chemistry. " Foundations of Chemistry 3 (1 2001)
Klein, Ursula. "Paper tools in experimental cultures. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32A (2 2001)
Klein, Ursula. "Techniques of modelling and paper tools in classical chemistry." In: Models as mediators, eds.: Morgan, Mary S.; Morrison, Margret C.. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
Klein, Ursula. "Paving a way through the jungle of organic chemistry : experimenting within changing systems of order." In: Experimental Essays : Versuche zum Experiment, eds.: Heidelberger, Michael; Steinle, Friedrich. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 1998.
Klein, Ursula. "Nature and art in 17th-century French chemical textbooks." In: Reading the book of nature : the other side of the scientific revolution, eds.: Debus, Allen G.; Walton, Michael T.. [Kirksville, Mo.]: Sixteenth Century Journal Pub., 1998.
Klein, Ursula. "The chemical workshop tradition and the experimental practice : discontinuities within continuities. " Science in Context 9 (3 1996)
Klein, Ursula. "Experiment, Spiritus und okkulte Qualitäten in der Philosophie Francis Bacons. " Philosophia Naturalis 33 (2 1996)
Klein, Ursula. "Die Anfänge der neuzeitlichen Chemie in der Pharmazie und Metallurgie. Zu E. F. Geoffroys Tabelle stofflicher Beziehungen. " NTM N.S. 3 (1995)
Klein, Ursula. "E. F. Geoffroy's table of different `Rapports' observed between different chemical substances - a reinterpretation. " Ambix 42 (2 1995)
Klein, Ursula. "Robert Boyle – Der Begründer der Neuzeitlichen Chemie?. " Philosophia Naturalis 31 (1 1994)
Klein, Ursula. "Origin of the Concept of Chemical Compound. " Science in Context 7 (2 1994)