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Merchants & marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe
Title
Merchants & marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe / edited by Pamela H. Smith & Paula Findlen.
ISBN
0203950992 (electronic bk.)
9780203950999 (electronic bk.)
041592815X
0415928168
9780415928151
9780415928168
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, ©2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 437 pages : : illustrations.)
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Summary
The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s. The essays address intriguing topics like the Dutch tulipmania of 1637, the relationship between alchemy and commercial exchange in the Holy Roman Empire, the traffic in "curiosities" in Italy, and how Spanish sea charts reflected territorial claims in the 1500s. Merchants and Marvels is a intriguing work lining the borders feast for intellectually curious readers who enjoy works like Lawrence Weschl cultural, social and economic history, material culture and art history within this rarest of creatures: a tightly coherent and highly readable volume.
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Merchants and marvels
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 Wunderkammer / Mark A. Meadow
Practical 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 the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji
Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit: on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome / Klaas 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 Goldgar
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 Dacosta Kaufmann.
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