Merchants & marvels commerce, science and art in early modern Europe ; [this volume of essays began life in two conferences: a session held at the 1997 History of Science Society meeting in San Diego, and a 1999 workshop at the Clark Library hosted by the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles]

Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixtee...

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Körperschaften: History of Science Society (VeranstalterIn), University of California Los Angeles Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies (VeranstalterIn), William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Gastgebende Institution)
Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Pamela H. (HerausgeberIn), Findlen, Paula (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Routledge 2002
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Zusammenfassung:Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman -- From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan -- "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera -- Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Winderkammer / Mark A. Meadow -- Patriarchal alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal -- Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook -- Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klass van Berkel -- Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen -- Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Godgar -- Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett -- A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts -- Questions of representation / Thomas Dakota Huffman.
Inhalt: Splendor in the grass: the powers of nature and the art in the age or Dürer / Larry Silver and Pamela H. Smith -- Objects of art, objects of nature: visual representation and the investigation of nature / Pamela O. Long -- Mirroring the world: sea charts, navigation, and territorial claims in sixteenth-century Spain / Alison Sandman -- From blowfish to flower still life paintings: classification and its images, circa 1600 / Claudia Swan -- "Strange" ideas and "English" knowledge: natural science exchange in Elizabethan London / Deborah E. Harkness -- Local herbs, global medicines: commerce, knowledge, and commodities in Spanish America / Antonio Barrera -- Merchants and marvels: Hans Jacob Fugger and the origins of the Winderkammer / Mark A. Meadow -- Patriarchal alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara E. Nummedal -- Time's bodies: crafting the preparation and the preservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook -- Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV: the case of Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- "Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit": on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klass van Berkel -- Inventing nature: commerce, art and science in the early modern cabinet of curiosities / Paula Findlen -- Nature as art: the case of the tulip / Anne Godgar -- Inventing exoticism: the project of Dutch geography and the marketing of the world, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Shopping for instruments in Paris and London / James A. Bennett -- A world of wonders, a world of one / Lisa Roberts -- Questions of representation / Thomas Dakota Huffman
Die Aufsätze sind in 3 Kapitel und 1 Epilog eingeteilt: Part 1. Struggling with reality: visualizing nature and producing knowledge -- Part 2. Networks of knowledge: commerce and the representation of nature -- Part 3. Consumption, art, and science -- [Part]. Epilogues
Beschreibung:IX, 437 S.
Ill.
23 cm
ISBN:0415928168
0-415-92816-8
041592815X
0-415-92815-X
9780415928151
978-0-415-92815-1