Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern EuropePamela Smith, Paula Findlen Routledge, 18 paź 2013 - 448 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. |
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Splendor in the Grass | 29 |
Objects of ArtObjects of Nature | 63 |
Mirroring the World | 83 |
From Blowfish to Flower Still Life Paintings | 109 |
Strange Ideas and English Knowledge | 137 |
Local Herbs Global Medicines | 163 |
Merchants and Marvels | 182 |
Practical Alchemy and Commercial Exchange | 201 |
Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit | 277 |
Inventing Nature | 297 |
Nature as Art | 324 |
Inventing Exoticism | 347 |
Shopping for Instruments in Paris and London | 370 |
A World of Wonders A World of One | 399 |
Questions of Representation | 412 |
Contributors | 423 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen Ograniczony podgląd - 2013 |
Merchants & [and] marvels : commerce, science and art in early modern Europe Pamela H. Smith Podgląd niedostępny - 2002 |
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