Merchants & marvels : commerce, science, and art in early modern Europe / edited by Pamela H. Smith & Paula Findlen
| Publisher | New York ; London : Routledge |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Authors | Smith, Pamela H., 1957- Findlen, Paula |
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| Location | Volume | Call No. | Barcode No. | Status | Comments | ISBN | Printed | Restriction | Reserve |
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| Library Main Building Basement (Foreign Books, Code Classification) | : hbk | 2300:448 | 121008408O |
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041592815X |
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| Material Type | Books |
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| Size | ix, 437 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Other titles | variant access title:Merchants and marvels |
| Contents | Introduction : commerce and the representation of nature in art and science / Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen Splendor in the grass : the powers of nature and art in the age of 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 proservation of naturalia / Harold J. Cook Cartography, entrepreneurialism, and power in the reign of Louis XIV : the case of the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji "Cornerius 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 / Lissa Roberts Questions of representation / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subjects | LCSH:Art and science LCSH:Nature (Aesthetics) LCSH:Commerce -- Europe -- History All Subject Search |
| Classification | DC21:704.9/43/094 LCC:N72.S3 |
| Language | English |
| ID | 1000670754 |
| ISBN | 041592815X |
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BA54946462 
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