@incollection{discovery1470236, title = {Science and recycling in the long eighteenth century}, month = {October}, booktitle = {The afterlife of used things: recycling in the long eighteenth century}, editor = {A Fenetaux and S Vasset and A Junqua}, pages = {142--151}, publisher = {Routledge}, year = {2014}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, series = {Routledge Studies in Cultural History}, note = {Copyright {\copyright} 2014 from "The afterlife of used things: recycling in the long eighteenth century" by Fenetaux, A; Vasset, S; and Junqua, A (eds.). Reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc. This material is strictly for personal use only. For any other use, the user must contact Taylor \& Francis directly at this address: \& Francis directly at this address: permissions.mailbox@taylorandfrancis.com. Printing, photocopying, sharing via any means is a violation of copyright.}, abstract = {Historians of science have recently shifted their attention from studying innovation and the production of knowledge to its consumption, dissemination, and circulation. Historians and sociologists of technology have similarly been keen to explore the ways technology is used rather than focus on the process of invention. Such approaches point to the need for a better appreciation of everyday scientific and technical practices, and the ongoing significance they give to existing ideas, techniques, and objects. This essay argues that everyday scientific practice was often as much about preserving, repairing and re-using the old as it was about innovation, and eighteenth-century natural philosophers both participated in and contributed to the creation of a variety of such practices.}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/products/9781315794594}, author = {Werrett, S}, keywords = {history of science, recycling, eighteenth century}, isbn = {0415726301} }