The contributions present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and stragegies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production and uses of molecules.

Museum-based researchers and historian, philosophers, and sociologists of science and medicine explore the three-dimensionality of important groups of models developed in western Europe and the US since the middle 18th century, and explore their roles in making knowledge. Among their topics are plastic anatomies and artificial dissections, monsters