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Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Pamela Smith
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Description for Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
Paperback. Merchants and Marvels addresses 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. Editor(s): Smith, Pamela H.; Findlen, Paula. Num Pages: 448 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; ACN; ACQ; HBTB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
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 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415928168
SKU
V9780415928168
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99-1
About Pamela Smith
Pamela H. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College and the Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science andCulture in the Holy Roman Empire, winner of the 1995 Pfizer Prize in the History of Science. Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford ... Read more
Reviews for Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe
"This beautifully-illustrated book explores the relations between the accumulations of profitable commodities and the production of enlightening knowledge in Europeans' relations with their external worlds, opening a new way of expressing the historical relation between the arts of depicting the world and the techniques for knowing it."
Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge ... Read more
Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge ... Read more